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
4-car chain-reaction crash ties up Route 17 in Paramus 4-car chain-reaction crash ties up Route 17 in Paramus 4-car chain-reaction crash ties up Route 17 in Paramus
4-car chain-reaction crash ties up Route 17 in Paramus ONLY ON CVP: A four-vehicle chain-reaction crash in Paramus tied up southbound traffic on Route 17 during tonight’s rush hour. The 5:30 p.m. left-lane collision, between A&S Drive and Midland Avenue, required a flatbed tow truck for two of the vehicles. Although an ambulance was dispatched, all involved refused immediate medical assistance. Paramus police were investigating. STORY / PHOTOS: Boyd A. Loving    

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Englewood, NJ
Breaking News
Englewood armed robber punches woman, 60, in face Englewood armed robber punches woman, 60, in face Englewood armed robber punches woman, 60, in face
Englewood armed robber punches woman, 60, in face YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Englewood police believe a street thug who punched a 60-year-old woman in the face, pointed a gun at her and took cash from her purse last night is the same one who robbed a local convenience store last week. The Hispanic woman was walking home from work on Slocum Avenue off Tenafly Road when the tall, black robber in his 20s came up from behind and attacked her around 10:30 p.m. yesterday, Detective Capt. Timothy Torell told CLIFFVIEW PILOT this afternoon. She was later taken to Englewood Medical Center, he said. “We’re concerned,” Torell said. “This is an extre…

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Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
Breaking News
West New York man in brutal Edgewater rape, beating threatens victim after guilty verdict West New York man in brutal Edgewater rape, beating threatens victim after guilty verdict West New York man in brutal Edgewater rape, beating threatens victim after guilty verdict
West New York man in brutal Edgewater rape, beating threatens victim after guilty verdict YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A West New York man convicted in the brutal rape of his girlfriend at an Edgewater construction site this afternoon threatened the victim in Spanish, making her cry, as he was being led out of the courtroom by Bergen County Sheriff’s officers. Arsenio Amelco took the woman the night of his 24th birthday last July on a drinking binge after promising her dinner, then dragged her beneath a tractor-trailer near a River Road restaurant and rape, beat and choked her as he threatened her life, jurors found. Defense attorney Alan Peyrouton admitted that his client struck t…

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Englewood, NJ
Breaking News
Six burglaries in Englewood commercial district net more than $10,000 cash Six burglaries in Englewood commercial district net more than $10,000 cash Six burglaries in Englewood commercial district net more than $10,000 cash
Six burglaries in Englewood commercial district net more than $10,000 cash YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Six businesses in Englewood’s west downtown commercial district were burglarized overnight, including a cellphone store from which $10,000 in cash was taken, city police told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. Cash was taken from registers at five of the businesses after the thief or thieves forced open doors sometime between 1 a.m. and 5 a.m., Detective Capt. Timothy Torell said. “We’re reviewing surveillance video and looking for witnesses,” Torell told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. The first break-in apparently occured at A&G Multi-Service, the phone store, the captain said. Another w…

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Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Hasbrouck Heights native, 43, killed in motorcycle crash Hasbrouck Heights native, 43, killed in motorcycle crash Hasbrouck Heights native, 43, killed in motorcycle crash
Hasbrouck Heights native, 43, killed in motorcycle crash TRIBUTE: A huge gathering in memory of a well-known Hasbrouck Heights woman killed in a crash in Morris County over the weekend is planned for tomorrow night at Rebar, a popular biker hangout in Hackensack. Meanwhile, new details of the crash that killed Laura Puglisi, 43, have emerged. “There are so many people who really care about her. This is a way for us all to honor her memory the way she would have wanted — with pictures and stories and song,” one of the event organizers, Jenny Pena, told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. The gathering will follow visitation from 5-8 p.m. at Costa Memorial Home, …

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Pascack Valley, NJ
Breaking News
Park Ridge police nab 2 in gift card ID scam Park Ridge police nab 2 in gift card ID scam Park Ridge police nab 2 in gift card ID scam
Park Ridge police nab 2 in gift card ID scam YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Park Ridge police arrested two Brooklyn men, one of whom authorities said tried to take off, on charges and using bogus IDs to buy gift cards and having synthetic pot. Montvale and Woodcliff Lake police assisted in the arrests yesterday afternoon on Kinderkamack Road — one in the shopping center that houses an A&P supermarket and the other across the street at a Taco Bell restaurant. Park Ridge police got the call just before 5 p.m. of the pair buying and exchanging several hundred dollars worth of gift cards from the A&P at the Ridgemont Shopping Center, C…

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Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
Breaking News
Mahwah hotel paying $110,000 to NJ for Hurricane Sandy price-gouging Mahwah hotel paying $110,000 to NJ for Hurricane Sandy price-gouging Mahwah hotel paying $110,000 to NJ for Hurricane Sandy price-gouging
Mahwah hotel paying $110,000 to NJ for Hurricane Sandy price-gouging YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Mahwah hotel has agreed to pay $110,000 to resolve 473 Hurricane Sandy price-gouging complaints, authorities said this morning. Comfort Suites Mahwah, operated by Tapah LLC, committed the violations “during the first 12 days of the state of emergency, when desperate families had to flee their homes and seek new shelter,” Acting state Attorney General John J. Hoffman said. To date, the state Division of Consumer Affairs and the Division of Law have resolved 22 of the 27 lawsuits filed against businesses accused of price gouging during the emergency. Including th…

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Monsey, NY
Breaking News
Public sector unions damaged but not destroyed by Supreme Court ruling Public sector unions damaged but not destroyed by Supreme Court ruling Public sector unions damaged but not destroyed by Supreme Court ruling
Public sector unions damaged but not destroyed by Supreme Court ruling BEYOND BERGEN: The conservative majority on the U.S. Supreme Court today ruled that partial public employees can’t be required to contribute to unions, in what some say is the first step in giving all public employees the right to decide whether or not they want to support a local. The high court’s stopped short of eliminating union dues in those states that require them when it ruled by 5-4 in Harris v. Quinn that eight home health-care workers in Illinois can’t be compelled to pay dues to a union they don’t want to join because they aren’t “full-fledged public employees,” even though they…

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Pascack Valley, NJ
Breaking News
Hillsdale police sergeant catches DWI driver in Paramus hit and run Hillsdale police sergeant catches DWI driver in Paramus hit and run Hillsdale police sergeant catches DWI driver in Paramus hit and run
Hillsdale police sergeant catches DWI driver in Paramus hit and run YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Montvale man who was stopped by a Hillsdale police sergeant behind the wheel of a pickup truck following a Paramus hit-and-run crash that sent two people to the hospital was drunk, authorities said this morning. Sgt. John Carty took 62-year-old Kenneth Scully into custody on DWI charges after spotting his 2003 Ford F-150 pickup truck with front-end damage on Kinderkamack Road yesterday afternoon, Paramus Deputyh Police Chief Robert Guidetti told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. A short time earlier, the pickup crashed into the rear of a 1993 Dodge Ram that was stopped at a light…

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Lyndhurst, NJ
Breaking News
Air fresheners don’t mask pot smell in traffic stop, Wallington police say Air fresheners don’t mask pot smell in traffic stop, Wallington police say Air fresheners don’t mask pot smell in traffic stop, Wallington police say
Air fresheners don’t mask pot smell in traffic stop, Wallington police say ONLY ON CVP: A cluster of car air fresheners weren’t enough to mask the smell of raw “Sour D” marijuana, said Wallington police who arrested a Garfield man on drug charges. Officers spotted the fresheners on the steering column switch arms after stopping a black Acura near the Wallington Lanes, Lt. Shawn Kudlacik told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. The driver initially refused a search consent but then changed his mind when a K9 unit arrived, Kudlacik said. In the front console police found a half-ounce of pot, the lieutenant said. A little more than 3½ more ounces were found in the trunk, inside a l…

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