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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Paramus, NJ
Breaking News
Visiting today for former Lincoln Center exec from Oradell who helped build MetLife Stadium Visiting today for former Lincoln Center exec from Oradell who helped build MetLife Stadium Visiting today for former Lincoln Center exec from Oradell who helped build MetLife Stadium
Visiting today for former Lincoln Center exec from Oradell who helped build MetLife Stadium TRIBUTE: Visiting hours are this afternoon and tonight for a former Lincoln Center administrator, MetLife Stadium construction executive and father of four who lived in Oradell. A Mass of Christian burial is set for 11 a.m. tomorrow at St. Francis of Assisi Church in West Nyack for Gerald A. Hastings, 52, who died suddenly on Monday. Although an astute musician, Jerry Hastings’s greatest loves were his children and his family. “Whenever we said ‘I love you,’ his response was always ‘I love you more’,” loved ones wrote in his obituary, citing his “kind heart and compassion for everyone.”…

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Northern Highlands, NJ
Breaking News
Woman says bicyclist lifted her skirt in Fair Lawn section of county park Woman says bicyclist lifted her skirt in Fair Lawn section of county park Woman says bicyclist lifted her skirt in Fair Lawn section of county park
Woman says bicyclist lifted her skirt in Fair Lawn section of county park YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Police this morning were searching the area of the duck pond of Saddle River County Park after a woman said a man came up on a bicycle in the Fair Lawn section and lifted her skirt. The woman, who notified police around 8 a.m., said the stranger then took off north towards Glen Rock on the bicycle path. She described him as Asian or Hispanic and wearing a blue shirt. Bergen County Police were joined in the search by local jurisdictions, BCPD Capt. James Mullin told CLIFFVIEW PILOT.

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Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Wallington firefighter charged with insurance fraud in bogus hit and run Wallington firefighter charged with insurance fraud in bogus hit and run Wallington firefighter charged with insurance fraud in bogus hit and run
Wallington firefighter charged with insurance fraud in bogus hit and run BREAKING NEWS: A Wallington firefighter and first aid squad member made up a story about being struck by a hit-and-run driver outside the borough firehouse last month, said detectives who charged him with insurance fraud and filing a false report. An “all-out” hunt for the purported driver led investigators back to Joseph Fehl, 36, following a review of area surveillance video and a series of interviews, Detective Lt. Shawn Kudlacik told CLIFFVIEW PILOT this morning. Fehl posted $2,000 bail and was released after Kudlacik arrested him last night. Fehl told police that he was struck by a…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Bogota mayor says councilman whacked him during borough meeting Bogota mayor says councilman whacked him during borough meeting Bogota mayor says councilman whacked him during borough meeting
Bogota mayor says councilman whacked him during borough meeting YOU SAW IT HERE FIRST: Bogota Mayor Tito Jackson was nursing a welt above his left eye that he and witnesses said he got when Councilman Evaristo Burdiez Jr. took a swing at him during budget discussions in council chambers tonight. “He was drunk. You could smell it on his breath,” Jackson said of Burdiez, who left Borough Hall without commenting after challenging the mayor to a fight. Jackson said he and others attending the closed-session meeting signed affidavits about the incident. “The whole council witnessed it. The CFO. The borough attorney,” he told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. “The guy wen…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
National Night Out in Maywood unites citizens, emergency responders National Night Out in Maywood unites citizens, emergency responders National Night Out in Maywood unites citizens, emergency responders
National Night Out in Maywood unites citizens, emergency responders SHOUT OUT: It was a warm but comfortable evening for the 31st annual National Night Out Against Crime throughout Bergen County. In Maywood, Special Police Capt. K. Sinfield, Sgt. B. Lopez and Officer R. Rodriguez handled children’s fingerprinting. Fire Official Tom Tuttle distributed smoke detectors. Classic cars were on display, as was Hackensack University Medical Center’s AirMed One medical chopper. Youngsters had plenty of games, food and refreshments, as citizens got to better know their emergency responders and others in town. Among those attending were the Maywood Eagle Scout…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Highlands, NJ
Breaking News
Another chain-reaction crash on troublesome Route 17 south sends one to hospital Another chain-reaction crash on troublesome Route 17 south sends one to hospital Another chain-reaction crash on troublesome Route 17 south sends one to hospital
Another chain-reaction crash on troublesome Route 17 south sends one to hospital YOU SAW IT HERE FIRST: A chain-reaction crash on southbound Route 17 in Ridgewood tonight sent one driver to the hospital and damaged two vehicles so badly that they needed to be towed. Village police, firefighters and EMS workers all responded to the 5:30 p.m. left-lane crash just south of Paramus Road. The driver of a red 4-door Mercedes was taken to The Valley Hospital with what authorities said were injuries from the air bag deploying. A Bergen County Sheriff’s officer assisted with traffic control at the scene. Heavy delays on Route 17 extended past Hollywood Avenue in Ho-Ho-Kus.…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
No prison time for illegal Mexican church van driver in fatal Saddle Brook crash No prison time for illegal Mexican church van driver in fatal Saddle Brook crash No prison time for illegal Mexican church van driver in fatal Saddle Brook crash
No prison time for illegal Mexican church van driver in fatal Saddle Brook crash UPDATE: An illegal Mexican immigrant from Rockland County will likely be deported after pleading guilty today in Hackensack to being unlicensed when he crashed a church van into an NJ Transit bus – killing one of his passengers – on the Garden State Parkway in Saddle Brook last fall. Oscar Martinez-Y-Martinez, 30, of Spring Valley swung a deal with prosecutors through which he’ll be sentenced to time served in the Bergen County Jail before he’s turned over to federal authorities. Martinez-Y-Martinez was arrested after the Oct. 1 crash killed Vilma Castro-DeMox and critically injured four …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Highlands, NJ
Breaking News
3 kids OK, nanny ticketed in Washington Township minivan crash 3 kids OK, nanny ticketed in Washington Township minivan crash 3 kids OK, nanny ticketed in Washington Township minivan crash
3 kids OK, nanny ticketed in Washington Township minivan crash YOU SAW IT HERE FIRST: Three Montclair children on their way to dance camp in Waldwick were OK after their nanny said she blacked out behind the wheel and their minivan crashed into a tree in Washington Township this afternoon. The mother quickly made it from her job in Englewood Cliffs to Washington Avenue, where the crash occurred around 1 p.m. as the Toyota Sienna was climbing the hill near Van Emburg Avenue. Helping everyone from the vehicle were Bunny Gayle of New York City, who drives for Waste Management, and Paolo Brocato, a temporary employee working with him from Labor Ready in …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Valley, NJ
Breaking News
Alpine police seek black sedan that put two 9W bicyclists in hospital Alpine police seek black sedan that put two 9W bicyclists in hospital Alpine police seek black sedan that put two 9W bicyclists in hospital
Alpine police seek black sedan that put two 9W bicyclists in hospital YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Alpine police were looking for a hitl-and-run driver who sent two bicyclists to Englewood Hospital this afternoon with injuries that they said weren’t life-threatening. The crash occurred around 1 p.m. on southbound Route 9W near Exit 2 of the Palisades Interstate Parkway, Police Chief Christopher J. Belcolle said. The passenger side of the black sedan hit one of the riders, who they crashed into the other, taking both down, Belcolle said. The sedan had damage on the passenger side front quarter-panel extending to the area of the side mirror and/or door, the chie…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Fugitive in botched Ridgefield Park heroin robbery caught, awaiting extradition to Bergen Fugitive in botched Ridgefield Park heroin robbery caught, awaiting extradition to Bergen Fugitive in botched Ridgefield Park heroin robbery caught, awaiting extradition to Bergen
Fugitive in botched Ridgefield Park heroin robbery caught, awaiting extradition to Bergen YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Authorities have captured a fugitive who’s been on the run for more than a year in connection with a botched attempt to rob an undercover detective posing as a heroin dealer in the parking lot of a Ridgefield Park hotel. Bergen County prosecutors have initiated extradition proceedings for Brandon Segar, who was being held at Riker’s Island following his arrest in New York City, court sources told CLIFFVIEW PILOT this morning. Segar, who turns 33 this coming Sunday, was one of four men charged with a scheme that went sideways after one of them put a loaded gun to th…

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