Jerry DeMarco

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Born in Newark and raised in Hudson County, Jerry DeMarco is a 38-year veteran of the news industry and a renowned breaking news reporter. He has covered local, county and state police, as well as the FBI, ATF and other federal agencies.

DeMarco joined Daily Voice in 2015 after six years running Cliffview Pilot, one of the nation's few independent breaking news sites. As an independent publisher, he helped establish Local Independent Online News, a national trade organization.

Prior to launching his own site, DeMarco served as a reporter for the Bergen Record, Stamford Advocate, Rockland Journal News, News Tribune, and Trenton Times.

DeMarco has won national recognition for his investigative work, including Clarion, Heywood Broun and Deadline Club awards. He's changed public policy and managed several major projects -- including one that helped put a corrupt public official in federal prison and another that forced a sitting New Jersey attorney general from office for her participation in a Bergen County traffic stop involving her boyfriend.

DeMarco regularly lectures at a graduate course in media relations at Fairleigh Dickinson University and previously was an adjunct professor at Lehman College in the Bronx. 

He has a Bachelor's Degree in English from St. Peter's University in Jersey City.

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Beekman-Poughquag, NY
Breaking News
Man survives Goethals leap, breaks back Man survives Goethals leap, breaks back Man survives Goethals leap, breaks back
Man survives Goethals leap, breaks back The first person to try to commit suicide off the Goethals Bridge broke his back but survived the 135-foot plunge, authorities said. The 30-something Bedminster man parked his silver Honda in the New Jersey-bound lanes before jumping into the Arthur Kill just after 11:30 last night, the Port Authority’s Joseph Pentangelo told CLIFFVIEW PILOT this afternoon. Port Authority police contacted the NYPD Harbor Unit, which found the man — alert — near the New Jersey side, Pentangelo said. They brought him to the Elizabeth Marina, where waiting EMS workers took him to University Hospital in New…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
Breaking News
Ridgefield Park police find 17 weapons stashed at warehouse, arrest ex-con from Pennsylvania Ridgefield Park police find 17 weapons stashed at warehouse, arrest ex-con from Pennsylvania Ridgefield Park police find 17 weapons stashed at warehouse, arrest ex-con from Pennsylvania
Ridgefield Park police find 17 weapons stashed at warehouse, arrest ex-con from Pennsylvania YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Ridgefield Park police arrested a purported Pagans gang member from Pennsylvania who they said they found with 17 guns and armor-piercing ammunition stashed at the borough warehouse where he worked. Forklift machinist Steven Prunkel, a 49-year-old ex-con from East Stroudsburg, was being held on $750,000 in the Bergen County Jail after village police arrested him at the Star Candle Co. warehouse on Industrial Avenue, just below Route 80. Tipped off by the Pennsylvania State Police, detectives received the company owner’s permission just before 3 o’clock yesterday af…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Female pedestrian killed in Leonia identified as Palisades Park restaurant owner Female pedestrian killed in Leonia identified as Palisades Park restaurant owner Female pedestrian killed in Leonia identified as Palisades Park restaurant owner
Female pedestrian killed in Leonia identified as Palisades Park restaurant owner UPDATE: Authorities this afternoon confirmed that a pedestrian who was killed this morning in Leonia when she was struck and dragged by a mini school bus taking a teenager to summer camp was the owner of a popular Palisades Park restaurant. “Everyone here is taken back by this,” a Palisades Park borough employee told CLIFFVIEW PILOT this morning. “It’s such a shame. “A wonderful lady,” he said. “There’s not a thing she wouldn’t do for you. “It’s terrible when anything like this happens to anyone. But when you know the person, and it’s someone like her …. Many of us have known her for ye…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
State doctor says Ridgewood physician fit to stand trial in weapons, explosives case State doctor says Ridgewood physician fit to stand trial in weapons, explosives case State doctor says Ridgewood physician fit to stand trial in weapons, explosives case
State doctor says Ridgewood physician fit to stand trial in weapons, explosives case ONLY ON CVP: A state expert has deemed a Ridgewood physician found with explosive chemicals and firearms in his basement apartment nearly two years ago mentally fit to stand trial. The prosecution of 62-year-old Roberto Rivera following a November 2012 raid was temporarily delayed while the psychiatrist at the Anne Klein Forensic Center in West Trenton evaluated him for mental illness. However, Rivera returned to court in Hackensack today for the first time in several months, and and the prosecutor in the case asked a judge for permission to bring the doctor to court. Assistant Bergen C…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Porsche driver had open vodka bottle in GWB tractor-trailer crash, police say Porsche driver had open vodka bottle in GWB tractor-trailer crash, police say Porsche driver had open vodka bottle in GWB tractor-trailer crash, police say
Porsche driver had open vodka bottle in GWB tractor-trailer crash, police say YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Port Authority police this afternoon identified the DWI driver of a Porsche dragged several hundred yards overnight by a tractor-trailer on the George Washington Bridge as a 55-year-old Rockland County man. Stuart J. Lieberman of Monsey had a nearly empty bottle of vodka in the car after the 2003 Porsch 911Porche struck the rig on the upper level headed into New Jersey around 12:30 a.m., breaking his leg, the authority’s Joseph Pentangelo said. He was taken to Hackensack University Medical Center after Port Authority tunnel and bridge agents cut him from the car. …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Previous case of Leonia man now charged in sex assault on girl, 16, prompted changes in jury selection Previous case of Leonia man now charged in sex assault on girl, 16, prompted changes in jury selection Previous case of Leonia man now charged in sex assault on girl, 16, prompted changes in jury selection
Previous case of Leonia man now charged in sex assault on girl, 16, prompted changes in jury selection EXCLUSIVE REPORT: A Leonia man accused last month of sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl previously avoided prison time and Megan’s Law registration when New Jersey’s highest court overturned his 2002 conviction on sex assault charges, in a case that set a standard for how jurors are selected, CLIFFVIEW PILOT has learned. A judge in Hackensack sentenced Wilfredo Arias to six years in state prison after jurors convicted him of of sexually assaulting a 9-year-old Little Ferry girl. But the state Supreme Court overturned the conviction in early 2005, sending it back to Hackensack for retr…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Leonia police issue sketch of diversion burglar who stole thousands Leonia police issue sketch of diversion burglar who stole thousands Leonia police issue sketch of diversion burglar who stole thousands
Leonia police issue sketch of diversion burglar who stole thousands HAVE YOU SEEN HIM? Leonia police today issued a sketch of a diversion burglary who, working with a partner, stole several thousands dollars from an unwitting homeowner. The victim told police a man claiming to work for PSE&G rang his doorbell Friday afternoon, saying the utility “was going to install a new utility pole in the rear yard,” Police Chief Thomas Rowe said. The bandit then convinced the man to accompany him to the backyard to show him where the pole would go, Rowe said. He remained on a cellphone the entire time, giving someone on the other line a play-by-play of what was…

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Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Alleged ‘Bergen bandit’ accomplice in spring Lodi armed robbery arrested Alleged ‘Bergen bandit’ accomplice in spring Lodi armed robbery arrested Alleged ‘Bergen bandit’ accomplice in spring Lodi armed robbery arrested
Alleged ‘Bergen bandit’ accomplice in spring Lodi armed robbery arrested YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A man charged with a string of armed robberies in four Bergen County towns had an accomplice in at least one of the holdups, Lodi police revealed today in announcing his arrest. Emsha Wellington, 35, of Lodi was tracked down and grabbed in Parlin yesterday by Lodi police and U.S. Marshals in connection with the March 17 holdup of a 7-Eleven on Essex Street. Wellington, who works for Driscoll Foods in Clifton, was being held on $500,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail, charged with armed robbery and two illegal weapons counts. Authorities were also eyeing his possibl…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Lyndhurst, NJ
Breaking News
Virginia man charged with threatening Bergen teen online with sexually explicit photos Virginia man charged with threatening Bergen teen online with sexually explicit photos Virginia man charged with threatening Bergen teen online with sexually explicit photos
Virginia man charged with threatening Bergen teen online with sexually explicit photos YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Virginia man who befriended a 13-year-old Bergen County boy by pretending to be another teenager threatened to post sexually explicit photos of the youngster online unless he sent him more, Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said today. Brian Pettenger, 44, who is married and unemployed, was arrested at his Riner, VA home yesterday during a search there by detectives from the Virginia State Police and the Molinelli’s Computer Crimes Unit, the prosecutor said. Pettenger contacted the boy on social media pretending to be another teen, Molinelli said this af…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Highlands, NJ
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NJ reimbursing local police departments for defective bulletproof vests NJ reimbursing local police departments for defective bulletproof vests NJ reimbursing local police departments for defective bulletproof vests
NJ reimbursing local police departments for defective bulletproof vests YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: State authorities said today that they’re about to begin distributing $173,780 to more than five dozen New Jersey police departments – 9 of them in Bergen County — that bought defective bulletproof vests from a manufacturer that filed for bankruptcy a decade ago. For years before Second Chance Body Armor, Inc. finally went bankrupt, its Zylon-based vests “had the potential to put police officers’ lives at risk,” state Acting Attorney General John J. Hoffman said. “We are not going to leave these agencies to foot the bill,” he said. Police departments from Bergen …

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