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
Upper Saddle River police get to semis for National Guard, Reserves honor Upper Saddle River police get to semis for National Guard, Reserves honor Upper Saddle River police get to semis for National Guard, Reserves honor
Upper Saddle River police get to semis for National Guard, Reserves honor SHOUT OUT: Upper Saddle River police were one of three New Jersey semifinalists in the running for the highest honor the U.S. Department of Defense can give an organization for supporting the National Guard and Reserves. The Secretary of Defense Employer Support Freedom Award is given to an employer who provides “extraordinary support” to their Guard and Reserve employees. The other New Jersey semifinalists were Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield in Newark and Grande Brothers Inc. of Toms River. Thirty finalists – none from New Jersey – were chosen from an overall field of 2,864 who were nomi…

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Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Child victim inspires teacher in American Cancer Society GWB Challenge Child victim inspires teacher in American Cancer Society GWB Challenge Child victim inspires teacher in American Cancer Society GWB Challenge
Child victim inspires teacher in American Cancer Society GWB Challenge A TEACHER WRITES: As I laced my running shoes for the American Cancer Society’s 27th Annual GWB 5K Challenge this morning, I kept a little girl in mind who has affected my life, and those of my students, in ways none of us could have never imagined. I found Julia Eveland online more than three years ago: Her bright blue eyes twinkled from an old friend’s Facebook page. She was 5 at the time but not your typical kindergartner. Julia was battling Wilm’s tumor, a childhood kidney cancer, yet she was concerned about absent classmates who had the sniffles. I can be a bit of a skeptic, but I …

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Cresskill-Closter, NJ
Breaking News
Bergen sheriffs officers’ raises figure prominently in freeholders’ budget Bergen sheriffs officers’ raises figure prominently in freeholders’ budget Bergen sheriffs officers’ raises figure prominently in freeholders’ budget
Bergen sheriffs officers’ raises figure prominently in freeholders’ budget ONLY ON CVP: The Bergen County freeholders this past week introduced a 2014 budget that pays sheriff’s officers long-delayed raises, commits $2 million to a new justice center complex and boosts funding to county educational facilities. It also reduces the tax levy for the first time that anyone can remember — by $52,907 from last year. Freeholder Maura DeNicola said the board will be funding raises due under the contract for sheriff’s officers now that a state appeals court has ruled that Bergen County Executive Kathleen Donovan can no longer block them. The estimated payout for office…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cresskill-Closter, NJ
Breaking News
Boy, 10, ejected in Closter van crash, pedestrian struck Boy, 10, ejected in Closter van crash, pedestrian struck Boy, 10, ejected in Closter van crash, pedestrian struck
Boy, 10, ejected in Closter van crash, pedestrian struck CVP EXCLUSIVE: A 10-year-old boy was expected to survive his injuries after being ejected from an SUV during a crash in Closter yesterday. The boy, “who most likely wasn’t wearing a seatbelt,” was sitting with a 9-year-old girl in the back of a Toyota Sienna that collided with a older model two-door Acura that blew a stop sign on West Street at Harrington Avenue just after 1 p.m., Police Sgt. Thomas Brueck said. The Sienna, which had a 36-year-old female driver and male passenger in front, rolled over before coming to rest nose-up on a fire hydrant. All four occupants were taken to the …

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Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Motor scooter rider critically injured in Saddle Brook Route 46 crash Motor scooter rider critically injured in Saddle Brook Route 46 crash Motor scooter rider critically injured in Saddle Brook Route 46 crash
Motor scooter rider critically injured in Saddle Brook Route 46 crash ONLY ON CVP: A 44-year-old motor scooter rider was in critical condition at Hackensack University Medical Center after his vehicle slammed into the back of a van stopped at a light on Route 46 in Saddle Brook. The Bergen County Prosecutor’s Fatal Accident Unit was investigating along with Saddle Brook police following the early evening crash at the intersection of Fifth Street. Traffic was backed up to the Passaic River during the cleanup and investigation on the eastbound highway. PHOTO: Courtesy JOANNA MARIE LIFONTI

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Ridgefield man in rampage, GWB crashes arrested 39 times before Ridgefield man in rampage, GWB crashes arrested 39 times before Ridgefield man in rampage, GWB crashes arrested 39 times before
Ridgefield man in rampage, GWB crashes arrested 39 times before YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Ridgefield man who crashed an Escalade stolen from a Paterson car dealership into two Port Authority police cruisers at either end of the George Washington Bridge in what authorities said was a three-state rampage yesterday is a career criminal who’d been arrested 39 times in the past 15 years, CLIFFVIEW PILOT has learned. Luis A. Figueroa, 33, was taken to Weill Cornell Medical Center with burns he likely got while trying to burn down a Paterson car dealership a short time before the bridge crashes. Three PAPD officers were treated for cuts and bruises at Holy N…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Pascack Valley, NJ
Breaking News
Suspected pepper spray clears popular Westwood Italian restaurant Suspected pepper spray clears popular Westwood Italian restaurant Suspected pepper spray clears popular Westwood Italian restaurant
Suspected pepper spray clears popular Westwood Italian restaurant ONLY ON CVP: Westwood police suspect pepper spray may have been the source of an irritant that cleared a popular local restaurant last night. “We don’t know the source yet — or whether it was accidental or on purpose,” Police Chief Frank Regino told CLIFFVIEW PILOT this morning. Coughing patrons and staff at Baci Italian Grill evacuated the restaurant just before 8:20 p.m. Off-duty police having dinner at the popular eatery said the irritant seemed to be pepper spray, although it didn’t affect anyone’s eyes. “As soon as people went outside, the symptoms disappeared,” Regino said. Pe…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Rutherford, NJ
Breaking News
Dozing trucker charged in crash that critically injured Tracy Morgan Dozing trucker charged in crash that critically injured Tracy Morgan Dozing trucker charged in crash that critically injured Tracy Morgan
Dozing trucker charged in crash that critically injured Tracy Morgan UPDATE: State Police said an 18-wheeler driven by a dozing trucker who didn’t see traffic slowing in front of him slammed into the back of the limo bus carrying comedian Tracy Morgan and his entourage, killing the comedian’s comedy writer and leaving the former “Saturday Night Live” and “30 Rock” cast member and his assistant in critical condition. Morgan, 45, was in the Intensive Care Unit at Robert Wood Johnson University Medical Center in New Brunswick following the 1 a.m. crash on the New Jersey Turnpike between Exits 7 and 8A in Cranbury, his publicist, Lewis Kay, said this afternoon. …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Highlands, NJ
Breaking News
Youngsters, police vets bring smiles, tears of joy to annual Bergen ‘Chief for a Day’ event Youngsters, police vets bring smiles, tears of joy to annual Bergen ‘Chief for a Day’ event Youngsters, police vets bring smiles, tears of joy to annual Bergen ‘Chief for a Day’ event
Youngsters, police vets bring smiles, tears of joy to annual Bergen ‘Chief for a Day’ event SHOUT OUT: After a whirlwind day in which he was applauded by his school, saluted by his local police department and escorted by a special motorcade, 6-year-old Henry Naida of Tenafly had one “Chief of the Day” wish: “Let’s do it again tomorrow!” Henry was one of nearly two dozen ill and disabled youngsters who became honorary police chiefs of their respective towns for today’s fourth annual “Chief of the Day” program sponsored by Bergen County Sheriff Michael Saudino. “What a fantastic day — so very rewarding,” Tenafly Police Chief Robert Chamberlain told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. “I think the sh…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
Breaking News
Englewood woman gets probation in beating of mother-in-law, 82 Englewood woman gets probation in beating of mother-in-law, 82 Englewood woman gets probation in beating of mother-in-law, 82
Englewood woman gets probation in beating of mother-in-law, 82 YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Saying she doesn’t want to look like a “bad grandmother,” an Englewood woman who assaulted her elderly mother-in-law in a drug-fueled rage last fall told a judge today that she’s a changed person. Mary Tene, who was disheveled, sullen and jumpy during a January court appearance, was neatly groomed, calm and cordial today to Presiding Superior Court Judge Liliana DeAvila-Silebi, who sentenced her to two years’ probation and 212 days she spent in jail. Accompanying her to court was her husband, Jimmy Miller. Jimmy Miller (STORY / PHOTOS: Mary K. Miraglia, CLIFFVIEW…

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