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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Hackensack, NJ
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Prosecutor, defense attorney clash over sentence for Hackensack man in repeated sex assaults on girl Prosecutor, defense attorney clash over sentence for Hackensack man in repeated sex assaults on girl Prosecutor, defense attorney clash over sentence for Hackensack man in repeated sex assaults on girl
Prosecutor, defense attorney clash over sentence for Hackensack man in repeated sex assaults on girl ONLY ON CVP: A defense attorney got into a shouting match with a prosecutor in court yesterday after he called an Ecuadoran immigrant from Hackensack being sentenced for sexually assaulting a girl over three years “a good man” and “a fine American.” “His wife loves him and wants him back. His daughter wants him back,” Frank Lucianna told a judge in Hackensack, before she sentenced Carlos Bermudez-Rosado to 14 years in prison. “How can this possibly be reconciled?” This enraged Assistant Bergen County Prosecutor Marybel Mercado-Ramirez, who in graphic detail described the horrific violatio…

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Paterson, NJ
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Car carrier slams Garfield railroad trestle Car carrier slams Garfield railroad trestle Car carrier slams Garfield railroad trestle
Car carrier slams Garfield railroad trestle ONLY ON CVP: Two heavy-duty wreckers were needed after three cars on a carrier were severely damaged passing under a train trestle in Garfield. CLIFFVIEW PILOT Correspondent Kevin Teel took these photos of the late-afternoon mishap at Passaic and Midland avenues. PHOTOS: Kevin Teel  

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Highlands, NJ
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PHOTOS: Friday storm creates hot mess PHOTOS: Friday storm creates hot mess PHOTOS: Friday storm creates hot mess
Photos: Friday storm creates hot mess Another quick but fierce summer storm wrought the usual bedlam — downing trees and wires, stranding motorists and leading to rescues in Norwood and Allendale. Lines and trees were down in several towns, including on Iver Road in Allendale (photo, below) and on Mill Street in Westwood (SEE: Westwood lightning strike topples wires, ignites transformer). You can’t see it, but there’s a mini-van submerged in this photo from Allendale (COURTESY: Kyle Cauwenberghs) In Allendale, cars were abandoned in railroad underpasses at West Crescent and West Orchard avenues (photo, right). Firefigh…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Norwood police officer rescues woman after car plunges into overflowing creek Norwood police officer rescues woman after car plunges into overflowing creek Norwood police officer rescues woman after car plunges into overflowing creek
Norwood police officer rescues woman after car plunges into overflowing creek EXCLUSIVE REPORT: A Norwood police veteran celebrating his 28th anniversary as a cop today jumped into an overflowing creek and pulled out a woman as her car became submerged in this afternoon’s storm. The Honda Civic was more than half-submerged in roughly eight feet of water behind Borough Hall as Officer Thomas Russo came running with Englewood Cliffs Officer Mark Krapels, the son of Norwood Police Chief Jeff Krapels. “She opened the door, fell and went under,” said Russo, who’d already waded in up to his waist. “So I went in after her.” “It definitely wasn’t the kind of dive you see…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
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Leonia police sergeant stops stolen Virginia mini-van, arrests Bronx driver Leonia police sergeant stops stolen Virginia mini-van, arrests Bronx driver Leonia police sergeant stops stolen Virginia mini-van, arrests Bronx driver
Leonia police sergeant stops stolen Virginia mini-van, arrests Bronx driver ONLY ON CVP: A Leonia police sergeant using a license plate reader picked off a mini-van stolen out of Virginia and arrested the Bronx man who was behind the wheel before dawn this morning. Sgt. Christopher Jones was in a marked unit equipped with an Automatic License Plate Reader (ALPR) around 2 a.m. when the blue 2002 Ford Aerostar passed him on Fort Lee Road, Capt. Scott Tamagny told CLIFFVIEW PILOT this afternoon. Jones and Officer Eduardo Millan stopped the van and took 28-year-old Jawad Elkasri into custody, Tamagny said. A female passenger was released, he said. Elkasri was being…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Hackensack police nab pair in supermarket shoplifting turned robbery Hackensack police nab pair in supermarket shoplifting turned robbery Hackensack police nab pair in supermarket shoplifting turned robbery
Hackensack police nab pair in supermarket shoplifting turned robbery YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: With help from their Fort Lee colleagues, Hackensack police this morning arrested a pair of accused shoplifters — one of whom hit a Shop Rite security guard with his car as they fled last night. Working together, a female shoplifter left the River Street supermarket with assorted cosmetics as her male companion blocked the guard from chasing her around 9:30 last night, Detective Capt. Thomas Salcedo told CLIFFVIEW PILOT this afternoon. Chasing them to their car, the guard got a cellphone photo of their license plate. The car then clipped her as the man hit the gas,…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paramus, NJ
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Water company imposter steals cash from 80-something Paramus couple Water company imposter steals cash from 80-something Paramus couple Water company imposter steals cash from 80-something Paramus couple
Water company imposter steals cash from 80-something Paramus couple YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A pair of thieves — one posing as a water company worker — took an undetermined amount of cash savings from a Paramus couple in their 80s after convincing them to go into the basement. It’s an all-too-familiar scam, Paramus Police Chief Kenneth Ehrenberg said. The Fairview Avenue homeowners told police the first man showed up at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday wearing a construction hard hat and claiming to be from the water company. “He told them there was a water main break in the area and that he had to check the purity of the water,” Ehrenberg said. After being let in,…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Lyndhurst, NJ
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NJ lawmakers introduce bill to stop euthanization of cats, dogs NJ lawmakers introduce bill to stop euthanization of cats, dogs NJ lawmakers introduce bill to stop euthanization of cats, dogs
NJ lawmakers introduce bill to stop euthanization of cats, dogs YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Two New Jersey lawmakers have introduced a bill in Trenton to prevent cats and dogs no longer used for educational, research or scientific purposes from being killed. S-2344 would require institutions of higher education and research facilities to offer cats and dogs to animal rescue organizations for adoption before considering euthanizing them. Senators Jennifer Beck (R-Monmouth) and Mike Doherty (R-Hunterdon, Somerset, Warren) introduced legislation “Rescued animals make for the best family members and companions,” said state Sen. Jennifer Beck, a co-sponsor o…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Pascack Valley, NJ
Breaking News
Westwood lightning strike topples wires, ignites transformer Westwood lightning strike topples wires, ignites transformer Westwood lightning strike topples wires, ignites transformer
Westwood lightning strike topples wires, ignites transformer YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A lightning strike in Westwood during this afternoon’s storm sheared part of a tree, toppled sparking electrical wires and ignited a small transformer fire — knocking out power to residences and nearby businesses. “The fire jumped and then the transformer blew,” said a Mill Street resident who lives across the street from the scene of the 1:30 p.m. strike. Firefighters quickly tended to the blaze as Westwood police — already stretched thin by PSE&G roadwork being done throughout town — cordoned off the street. CHECK BACK FOR MORE DETAILS *      *      *    …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Union City trucker charged in fatal tractor-trailer Turnpike crash in Carlstadt Union City trucker charged in fatal tractor-trailer Turnpike crash in Carlstadt Union City trucker charged in fatal tractor-trailer Turnpike crash in Carlstadt
Union City trucker charged in fatal tractor-trailer Turnpike crash in Carlstadt YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A truck driver was using a cellphone when he caused a chain-reaction crash that killed a Hudson County man on the New Jersey Turnpike in Carlstadt, authorities said this afternoon. New Jersey State Police, working with the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office, arrested 55-year-old Henry Flores of Union City yesterday and charged him with vehicular homicide and hindering his arrest. They also gave him vehicle summonses for reckless driving and improper use of a cellular phone. The Monday, June 9 crash, which occurred just before 5 p.m., occurred in the southbound lan…

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