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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Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Port Authority makes arrest in Lincoln Tunnel sniper threat Port Authority makes arrest in Lincoln Tunnel sniper threat Port Authority makes arrest in Lincoln Tunnel sniper threat
Port Authority makes arrest in Lincoln Tunnel sniper threat BEYOND BERGEN: Port Authority detectives arrested a man with assaults arrests out of Georgia, Virginia and Pennsylvania in connection with the phone-in threat that a sniper was on the roof of a business near the Lincoln Tunnel last night. Investigators took 39-year-old Donald Wallace of College Park, GA just before midnight last night at the corner of 47 St and 11th Avenue in Manhattan, the authority’s Joseph Pentangelo told CLIFFVIEW PILOT this afternoon. Wallace was charged with making terroristic threats and creating a false public alarm. Dozens of officers swarmed the tunnel area in…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Bergenfield, NJ
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Thief crashes stolen DPW pickup truck on Bayonne Bridge, pulls knife on officers, police say Thief crashes stolen DPW pickup truck on Bayonne Bridge, pulls knife on officers, police say Thief crashes stolen DPW pickup truck on Bayonne Bridge, pulls knife on officers, police say
Thief crashes stolen DPW pickup truck on Bayonne Bridge, pulls knife on officers, police say BEYOND BERGEN: Port Authority and Bayonne police arrested a man on the Staten Island side of the Bayonne Bridge after he crashed a stolen DPW pickup truck head-on into another car during a police chase late this morning, authority police said, confirming an earlier CLIFFVIEW PILOT report. Wendel Ryan Phillip, 29, of Bayonne was headed south, just before the toll, when the stolen vehicle crossed into the northbound lane and crashed around 11:20 this morning, the authority’s Joseph Pentangelo said this afternoon. Pentangelo said he got out and pulled a knife on pursuing Bayonne officers but…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Valley, NJ
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Haworth good Samaritan stops Union City man from jumping off GWB Haworth good Samaritan stops Union City man from jumping off GWB Haworth good Samaritan stops Union City man from jumping off GWB
Haworth good Samaritan stops Union City man from jumping off GWB SHOUT OUT: A good Samaritan from Haworth is credited with preventing a despondent Union City man from jumping off the George Washington Bridge last night. Port Authority police responding to emergency calls from passersby around 8 p.m. found bicyclist Benjamin Storch, 38, clinging tightly to the 67-year-old Union City man on the south walkway just west of the bridge’s New York tower, the authority’s Joseph Pentangelo said this morning. The 5-foot-7-inch, 150-pound man “had a powdered substance in his mouth and he admitted that he had taken a handful of pills and chewed them,” Pentangelo s…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Jurors split verdict against 10-year fugitive in GWB Ecstasy trafficking case Jurors split verdict against 10-year fugitive in GWB Ecstasy trafficking case Jurors split verdict against 10-year fugitive in GWB Ecstasy trafficking case
Jurors split verdict against 10-year fugitive in GWB Ecstasy trafficking case ONLY ON CVP: Jurors in Hackensack convicted a fugitive who ducked authorities for 10 years on charges connected to 10,000 Ecstasy tablets that narcotics detectives caught him with as he crossed the George Washington Bridge from Washington Heights. They acquitted Luis Santana, 34, of the Bronx on charges of resisting arrest and aggravated assault on police. Santana was 23 as investigators tracked his movements that August 2003 night, based on an informant’s tip. The Dominican national was carrying a black leather bag filled with $50,000 worth of MDMA when they stopped him, authorities said…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Free helmets for kids at Fort Lee bicycle registration, safety check Free helmets for kids at Fort Lee bicycle registration, safety check Free helmets for kids at Fort Lee bicycle registration, safety check
Free helmets for kids at Fort Lee bicycle registration, safety check SHOUT OUT: Youngsters can get free bicycle helmets when Fort Lee police conduct their annual bike registration and safety check this Saturday. The event runs from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., rain or shine, in the parking lot of the police department on 16th Street. Children from the township who don’t have their own helmets can get one free when they register. “If a bike is stolen from the street, a car or home, the owner needs the serial number to report the theft to the police,” Fort Lee Police Chief Keith Bendul said. “Most people don’t keep this number handy. “However, when a bicycle is re…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Jilted Fort Lee man accused of killing ex-girlfriend with car headed to trial Jilted Fort Lee man accused of killing ex-girlfriend with car headed to trial Jilted Fort Lee man accused of killing ex-girlfriend with car headed to trial
Jilted Fort Lee man accused of killing ex-girlfriend with car headed to trial ONLY ON CVP: A Fort Lee man who authorities said reacted to being dumped by his girlfriend by running her over several times with his car, killing her, will have to plead his case before a jury in December. Witnesses told investigators that Charles J. Ann drove off in the middle of a February 2012 argument with 25-year old Aena Hong near the intersection of Inwood Terrace and Anderson Avenue in Fort Lee — then turned around his 2011 Hyundai Sonata and gunned the accelerator as she crossed the street. Ann, 28, then repeatedly backed up and drove over her again at least three times, they sa…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Palisades Park auto dealer charged with abandoning smashed, burning Lamborghini near GWB Palisades Park auto dealer charged with abandoning smashed, burning Lamborghini near GWB Palisades Park auto dealer charged with abandoning smashed, burning Lamborghini near GWB
Palisades Park auto dealer charged with abandoning smashed, burning Lamborghini near GWB YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: The man who abandoned a crashed and burning Lamborghini in Fort Lee after getting off the George Washington Bridge yesterday was identified by Port Authority police tonight as Dean Ditchfield of Palisades Park, the CEO and president of Newark-based East Coast Auto Group. The 33-year-old Ditchfield — whose real full name is Deankarte E. Ditchfield-Agboh — is due in Municipal Court in Fort Lee on Aug. 6 to answer charges of abandonment of a vehicle and leaving the scene of an accident. The black 2008 Lamborghini “Murcielago” — which was made only between 2001 and 201…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Rochelle Park, Lyndhurst police hunt diversion crew that stole $6,000 worth of GoPro cameras Rochelle Park, Lyndhurst police hunt diversion crew that stole $6,000 worth of GoPro cameras Rochelle Park, Lyndhurst police hunt diversion crew that stole $6,000 worth of GoPro cameras
Rochelle Park, Lyndhurst police hunt diversion crew that stole $6,000 worth of GoPro cameras YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Police are seeking the public’s help finding a group of diversion thieves caught on video taking $6,000 worth of GoPro cameras from stores in Rochelle Park and Lyndhurst on the same day last week. The thieves hit the Blue Water Divers store on Route 17 last Thursday, Rochelle Park Detective Jim DePreta told CLIFFVIEW PILOT this afternoon (photos below, left). While the larger of the two men pulled a clerk to the opposite side of the store, distracting her, a bandit in a striped shirt cut wire locks securing eight GoPro Hero 3+ cameras, DePreta said. He handed …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
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‘Chemo bio fire cannot be subdued’ writes barricaded Mahwah man taken into custody by SWAT team ‘Chemo bio fire cannot be subdued’ writes barricaded Mahwah man taken into custody by SWAT team ‘Chemo bio fire cannot be subdued’ writes barricaded Mahwah man taken into custody by SWAT team
‘Chemo bio fire cannot be subdued’ writes barricaded Mahwah man taken into custody by SWAT team YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: “Chemo bio fire cannot be subdued” read a warning note found along with a gas mask and other items attached to the front door of a emotionally disturbed biochemical engineer who was finally taken into custody this afternoon after an hours-long scare at a Mahwah condominium complex. Police who knocked on the door just after 8:30 a.m. said 27-year-old Maksim Burakhovich partially opened it, then quickly slammed it shut and threw the dead bolt. They tried to get him to open the door but he refused, Mahwah Police Chief James Batelli said tonight. Thus began the incid…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Hackensack police charge four in iPhone robbery Hackensack police charge four in iPhone robbery Hackensack police charge four in iPhone robbery
Hackensack police charge four in iPhone robbery YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Four people were taken into custody by Hackensack police detectives after the staged robbery of an iPhone put the victim in intensive care. The 24-year-old Lodi victim arranged to sell his iPhone to Ibrahim Abuharthia, 19, of Ridgefield Park (above, middle) while chatting on Facebook, Capt. Thomas Salcedo said this morning. He told police he then went late Friday to an arranged location on Lodi Street where he thought he was meeting only Abuharthia. Instead, Abuharthia sat in the passenger side of a car containing three other people, Salcedo said. As the v…

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