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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Northern Highlands, NJ
Breaking News
Tense Garden State Parkway drama: Man with ‘gun’ threatens to shoot Ho-Ho-Kus police after chase, crash Tense Garden State Parkway drama: Man with ‘gun’ threatens to shoot Ho-Ho-Kus police after chase, crash Tense Garden State Parkway drama: Man with ‘gun’ threatens to shoot Ho-Ho-Kus police after chase, crash
Tense Garden State Parkway drama: Man with ‘gun’ threatens to shoot Ho-Ho-Kus police after chase, crash YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: An intense drama played out on the side of the Garden State Parkway overnight, as an unarmed Mahwah man who crashed his car during a police chase acted as if he had a gun in his waistband and threatened to use it on the responding officers, Ho-Ho-Kus Police Chief John Wanamaker told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. “I cannot say enough about the restraint that these officers and backup officers showed,” Wanamaker said. “This was one of those moments that could have changed a lot of lives in just a split second.” The incident began around 3 a.m., when Sgt. Michael LaCroix clocked a…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Highlands, NJ
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Group says Latinos unfairly targeted for asset seizures in Bergen County Group says Latinos unfairly targeted for asset seizures in Bergen County Group says Latinos unfairly targeted for asset seizures in Bergen County
Group says Latinos unfairly targeted for asset seizures in Bergen County YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A civil rights group is claiming that the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office has been seizing assets from Latino defendants in “grossly disproportionate” amounts. The Latino Leadership Alliance of New Jersey is asking acting state Attorney General John J. Hoffman to review Prosecutor John L. Molinelli’s civil forfeiture program, which it says has “incentivized” local police departments to participate. By doing so, its says, the prosecutor has accelerated the number of convicted or accused Latino defendants who’ve had their cash, cars, homes and other property seized…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Naked emotionally disturbed man caught in Glen Rock Naked emotionally disturbed man caught in Glen Rock Naked emotionally disturbed man caught in Glen Rock
Naked emotionally disturbed man caught in Glen Rock YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Glen Rock police took a naked, emotionally disturbed man to Bergen Regional Medical Center tonight after chasing him through the woods with the help of neighboring colleagues, emergency responders said. The search began around 10:30 and ended minutes later on Boulevard under Route 208 near Diamond Brook Park, one told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. Trains were slowed through the area during the search, another said. Fair Lawn and Hawthorne assisted. CHECK BACK FOR MORE DETAILS

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by Jerry DeMarco
Lyndhurst, NJ
Breaking News
Bergen County Police Emergency Services Unit offers local ‘force multiplier’ Bergen County Police Emergency Services Unit offers local ‘force multiplier’ Bergen County Police Emergency Services Unit offers local ‘force multiplier’
Bergen County Police Emergency Services Unit offers local ‘force multiplier’ SHOUT OUT: The Bergen County Police Department celebrated the first anniversary of its Emergency Services Unit with a demonstration of its varied capabilities during training last week at the county Law & Public Safety Institute in Mahwah. County Police Chief Brian Higgins established the unit after identifying “a need to provide enhanced patrol services to the residents in Bergen County.” The ESU is primarily is designed to “assist in handling high-risk operations that don’t rise to the level of a SWAT callout” and “bridge the gap between patrol and the SWAT Team,” the department sai…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
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‘Hooray for Helmets’ brings free ice cream, yogurt to safety-minded Fair Lawn youngsters ‘Hooray for Helmets’ brings free ice cream, yogurt to safety-minded Fair Lawn youngsters ‘Hooray for Helmets’ brings free ice cream, yogurt to safety-minded Fair Lawn youngsters
‘Hooray for Helmets’ brings free ice cream, yogurt to safety-minded Fair Lawn youngsters SHOUT OUT: Fair Lawn police are again issuing “tickets” for free ice cream and frozen yogurt at local businesses this summer to children spotted wearing helmets while on their bicycles, scooters or skateboards. Continuing a program that began eights years ago, “Hooray for Helmets” returns in conjunction with the Rotary Club of Fair Lawn. Besides stressing the safety benefits of helmets, police want citizens to know that the law requires anyone under 17 to wear one when on a bike, scooter or skateboard. The participating businesses: Haagen-Dazs, 23-12 Fair Lawn Avenue, Fair Lawn Cups @…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Competency hearing for man, 78, charged with showing porn to girl, 11, in River Vale Competency hearing for man, 78, charged with showing porn to girl, 11, in River Vale Competency hearing for man, 78, charged with showing porn to girl, 11, in River Vale
Competency hearing for man, 78, charged with showing porn to girl, 11, in River Vale ONLY ON CVP: A judge in Hackensack has ordered a mental competency evaluation for a Florida man charged with showing pornography to an 11-year-old girl while visiting loved ones in River Vale. Starr, 78, of Port St. Lucie, was arrested a year ago after the state Division of Child Protection and Permanency contacted Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli’s Special Victims Unit. A grand jury in Hackensack indicted him last October on two first-degree charges of sexual assault and two second-degree charges of impairing or debauching the morals of a minor. Defense attorney Adam Lustberg…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Two indicted in Lyndhurst Super Bowl tickets robbery Two indicted in Lyndhurst Super Bowl tickets robbery Two indicted in Lyndhurst Super Bowl tickets robbery
Two indicted in Lyndhurst Super Bowl tickets robbery ONLY ON CVP: An unindicted co-conspirator is prepared to testify against a Lyndhurst woman accused of luring to her apartment with the promise of selling him Super Bowl tickets and a man charged with robbing him of $1,200, CLIFFVIEW PILOT has learned. An indictment returned by a grand jury in Hackensack accuses Stephanie Diaz of luring the 21-year-old Nutley man to her apartment the day before the big game at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford. It charges Franklin Noble of East Orange with robbing the victim at gunpoint — along with the second, unidentified co-conspirator. Police said t…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Lyndhurst, NJ
Breaking News
Robber in Cowboys hat robs Wallington bank of $7,000 Robber in Cowboys hat robs Wallington bank of $7,000 Robber in Cowboys hat robs Wallington bank of $7,000
Robber in Cowboys hat robs Wallington bank of $7,000 A 20-something man in a Dallas Cowboys hat threw a bag over the counter at a Wallington bank and made off with nearly $7,000 in cash, police said. Four employees and six customers were in the Chase Bank branch on Main Street when the robber struck just after 10 a.m., Sgt. David Backo said. The Bergen County Sherriff’s Bureau of Criminal Identification collected evidence.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Lyndhurst, NJ
Breaking News
Starter pistol looked real to 2 North Arlington men robbed on the street, indictment says Starter pistol looked real to 2 North Arlington men robbed on the street, indictment says Starter pistol looked real to 2 North Arlington men robbed on the street, indictment says
Starter pistol looked real to 2 North Arlington men robbed on the street, indictment says ONLY ON CVP: Two North Arlington men robbed of $41 cash on a borough street couldn’t have known that the gunman was pointing a starter pistol, says an indictment against a Brooklyn man accused of holding them up. It was just after 3:40 a.m. this past March 10 when the victims, both 20, told police that a robber approached them on Harding Avenue near Morgan Place, pointed what looked like a silver revolver and demanded cash, Police Chief Louis Ghione told CLIFFVIEW PILOT at the time. A Kearny police officer who heard his colleagues’ alert found a man fitting the description moments later o…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Trial still months off for former Fort Lee man charged in infant son’s death Trial still months off for former Fort Lee man charged in infant son’s death Trial still months off for former Fort Lee man charged in infant son’s death
Trial still months off for former Fort Lee man charged in infant son’s death ONLY ON CVP: It will still be another two months at least before a judge will be able to consider setting a trial date for a former Fort Lee man charged with causing the death of 10-week-old son two years ago. The time it’s taking to bring the case hasn’t deterred the supporters of Michael Marrara Jr., however. Marrara, a maintenance worker for the Festival Flea Market in Pompano Beach, Fla., has remained free on $250,000 bail at his home in Boca Raton, making the trip north for occasional court hearings since his arrest in March 2012. Family members and friends have faithfully attended…

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