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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Rutherford, NJ
Breaking News
Bread truck driver charged in fatal Carlstadt hit and run makes bail Bread truck driver charged in fatal Carlstadt hit and run makes bail Bread truck driver charged in fatal Carlstadt hit and run makes bail
Bread truck driver charged in fatal Carlstadt hit and run makes bail YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A North Bergen bread delivery truck driver charged in the hit-and-run death of a Carlstadt business owner posted $105,000 bail yesterday and was released from the Bergen County Jail pending the outcome of the case. Joseph Eizaguirre, who turned 23 on Friday, fell asleep at the wheel of a Schripps European Bread Company around 4:30 a.m. Saturday on Paterson Plank Road/Route 120, Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli told CLIFFVIEW PILOT over the weekend. The truck struck and killed Boro Atanasoski, a 63-year-old Macedonian immigrant who lived in Brooklyn and ow…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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DWI driver subdued after leading Bergen sheriff’s officer on Hackensack chase DWI driver subdued after leading Bergen sheriff’s officer on Hackensack chase DWI driver subdued after leading Bergen sheriff’s officer on Hackensack chase
DWI driver subdued after leading Bergen sheriff’s officer on Hackensack chase YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A few tense moments ended a brief car chase through Hackensack as a drunk driver reached under his seat after being stopped by a Bergen County Sheriff’s officer, authorities said. The car’s tires squealed as the driver turned onto Linden Street from Passaic Street around 5:30 a.m. yesterday, Sheriff Michael Saudino said this morning. Activating his lights and siren, Officer Matthew DeBonis began chasing the red Toyota, which continued north on Linden Street, Saudino said. The driver — identified as Devin Hobson — “then made an abrupt right turn onto Clinton Place…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Two charged with repeated sex abuse of girl in Hackensack, Englewood Two charged with repeated sex abuse of girl in Hackensack, Englewood Two charged with repeated sex abuse of girl in Hackensack, Englewood
Two charged with repeated sex abuse of girl in Hackensack, Englewood ONLY ON CVP: Two men repeatedly sexually abused a pre-teen girl in Hackensack and Englewood before authorities arreted them in February, a grand jury indictment alleges. Oscar Sanchez, 34, raped and sodomized the girl, while he and 45-year-old Carlos Rocano touched her with their fingers and tongues and forced her to gratify them, the 15-count indictment returned in Hackensack late last week charges. Authorities allege that Rocano (above, right) began the abuse in September 2012. The crimes charged against Sanchez (left) began a year ago, they said. They were being held on $500,000 bail…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Highlands, NJ
Breaking News
Late-night Fair Lawn crash sends passenger to hospital Late-night Fair Lawn crash sends passenger to hospital Late-night Fair Lawn crash sends passenger to hospital
Late-night Fair Lawn crash sends passenger to hospital ONLY ON CVP: A female passenger was taken to The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood with head, neck and back injuries after a crash just before midnight last night in Fair Lawn. The 11:30 p.m. crash at the intersection of Morlott Avenue and Saddle River Road involved a four-door BMW and a Volkswagen Beetle. None of four men in the BMW was injured. A passenger in the Volkswagen complained of a head injury but refused medical assistance. Responding were Fair Lawn police and EMS workers and a paramedic unit from the hospital. Both cars removed by flatbed tow truck. Saddle River Road closed in …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Bergenfield man avoids prison for sex with girl, 13 Bergenfield man avoids prison for sex with girl, 13 Bergenfield man avoids prison for sex with girl, 13
Bergenfield man avoids prison for sex with girl, 13 ONLY ON CVP: A Bergenfield man avoided prison for having sex with an extremely troubled 13-year-old girl by pleading guilty to child endangerment and agreeing to sex offender treatment and drug testing. Timothy O’Sullivan, 26, also can never contact the girl or her family again, under the sentence imposed Friday by a judge in Hackensack. Assistant Bergen County Prosecutor Dion Findley told Superior Court Judge James J. Guida that every aspect of O’Sullivan’s plea deal was negoiated with the girl’s guardian, her aunt. Assistant Bergen County Prosecutor Dion Findley (STORY / PHOTOS: Mary …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Rutherford, NJ
Breaking News
North Bergen bread truck driver, 23, charged in fatal Carlstadt hit and run North Bergen bread truck driver, 23, charged in fatal Carlstadt hit and run North Bergen bread truck driver, 23, charged in fatal Carlstadt hit and run
North Bergen bread truck driver, 23, charged in fatal Carlstadt hit and run YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Bergen County authorities charged a North Bergen man who they said fell asleep behind the wheel of a bread delivery truck with the hit-and-run death of a Carlstadt business owner before dawn yesterday. Joseph Eizaguirre, who turned 23 on Friday, was being held on $105,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail. Boro Atanasoski, a 63-year-old Macedonian immigrant, was struck and killed around 4:30 a.m. Saturday on Paterson Plank Road/Route 120 by truck driven by Eizaguirre of Schripps European Bread Company, located on Tonnelle Avenue at 54th Street, Bergen County Prosecuto…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Highlands, NJ
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Mahwah baby formula bandits indicted for cold-cocking supermarket cart collector, fleeing police Mahwah baby formula bandits indicted for cold-cocking supermarket cart collector, fleeing police Mahwah baby formula bandits indicted for cold-cocking supermarket cart collector, fleeing police
Mahwah baby formula bandits indicted for cold-cocking supermarket cart collector, fleeing police ONLY ON CVP: A grand jury in Hackensack indicted three Queens men in a Mahwah shoplifting that turned into a baby formula robbery when one of them cold-cocked a supermarket cart collector. Two of them loaded a shopping cart with $3,000 worth of Enfamil at the A&P on Franklin Turnpike in Mahwah and headed for a car in the parking lot driven by an accomplice on Jan. 14, Mahwah Police Chief James Batelli told CLIFFVIEW PILOT at the time. “They steal the Enfamil in bulk and then sell it to stores and bodegas in the city,” Batelli said. The 20-something cart collector approached the pair…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
Breaking News
Car crashes into Mahwah fire truck Car crashes into Mahwah fire truck Car crashes into Mahwah fire truck
Car crashes into Mahwah fire truck YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: No injuries were reported after a Mahwah fire truck collided with a sedan last night. The truck carrying five firefighters from Fire Company # 2 Hazmat was responding to a gas leak from a dryer on Greene Street in the Fardale section when the crash occurred. The truck had its lights and siren activated when it stopped on Wyckoff Avenue for a red light at Pulis Avenue and was struck by the car as its driver made a right as the rig continued on, Police Chief James Batelli told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. The collision damaged the truck’s undercarriage pullout drawer, the chie…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Driver in botched Ridgefield Park heroin deal gets 12 years, could be out in 3½ Driver in botched Ridgefield Park heroin deal gets 12 years, could be out in 3½ Driver in botched Ridgefield Park heroin deal gets 12 years, could be out in 3½
Driver in botched Ridgefield Park heroin deal gets 12 years, could be out in 3½ ONLY ON CVP: The wheelman in a botched scheme to rob a heroin dealer of $50,000 was sentenced to 12 years in state prison but could be released in 3½. Jurors in March convicted 38-year-old Yohan Balcacer of possession of fake drugs and eluding police in the high-speed getaway after he rejected a plea deal that would have put him behind bars for more than a dozen years without a shot at parole. The gamble paid off when the jury also cleared him of several more serious charges. Superior Court Judge James J. Guida (STORY / PHOTOS: Mary K. Miraglia, CLIFFVIEW PILOT Courthouse Reporter) Ba…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Highlands, NJ
Breaking News
Ex-con arrested after Washington Township resident interrupts burglary Ex-con arrested after Washington Township resident interrupts burglary Ex-con arrested after Washington Township resident interrupts burglary
Ex-con arrested after Washington Township resident interrupts burglary YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Washington Township police arrested an ex-con from Englewood last night after a resident interrupted a home burglary — one of several in the same neighborhood, CLIFFVIEW PILOT has learned. Corey DeGroat, 37, was being held on $50,000 bail in Hackensack University Medical Center, charged with burglary, theft, resisting arrest and criminal mischief after a Bergen County Sheriff’s K9 unit tracked him down in a wooded area near the Garden State Parkway. He injured — and possibly broke — his ankle, a law enforcement source said. DeGroat, of Franklin Road, was out o…

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