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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Monsey, NY
Breaking News
J.P. Morgan settles case with NJ over unregistered securities agents J.P. Morgan settles case with NJ over unregistered securities agents J.P. Morgan settles case with NJ over unregistered securities agents
J.P. Morgan settles case with NJ over unregistered securities agents YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: The New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs and the Bureau of Securities this morning announced a $50,460 settlement with J.P. Morgan Securities, LLC, resolving violations that resulted from allowing unregistered agents to accept orders for the purchase and sale of securities in New Jersey. “Investors expect, demand, and deserve full compliance with the law when they entrust their money to an investment firm,” Acting Attorney General John J. Hoffman said. “J.P. Morgan fell short when it failed to ensure compliance with New Jersey’s registration requirements when deal…

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West Milford, NJ
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Port Authority police officer delivers baby in back of taxi Port Authority police officer delivers baby in back of taxi Port Authority police officer delivers baby in back of taxi
Port Authority police officer delivers baby in back of taxi YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Port Authority police officer delivered a baby boy in the back of a taxi in lower Manhattan last night. PAPD Officer Pasquale Carpentiere was on red light enforcement detail at the corner of Hudson and Laight streets when the cabbie got his attention around 11:30 p.m., the authority’s Joseph Pentangelo told CLIFFVIEW PILOT this morning. Carpentiere requested EMS and delivered the boy, he said. Officers Jorge Negron and Agostinho Matias, who also is a registered nurse, arrived soon after and helped stabilize the 39-year-old Bronx mother and child until EMS arriv…

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Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
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Funeral Mass on Monday for Ridgefield Park Sgt. Steve Sulborsky, 42 Funeral Mass on Monday for Ridgefield Park Sgt. Steve Sulborsky, 42 Funeral Mass on Monday for Ridgefield Park Sgt. Steve Sulborsky, 42
Funeral Mass on Monday for Ridgefield Park Sgt. Steve Sulborsky, 42 TRIBUTE: A funeral Mass is scheduled for Monday for popular Ridgefield Park Sgt. Steve A. Sulborsky. He was 42. Sulborsky began his career with the Ridgefield Park Police Department in 1998. He was a member of PBA Local # 86 and the New Jersey Honor Legion. He was also a member of the William F. Burk Masonic Lodge # 230. He leaves a wife, Beth, and two children, Casey and Evan; two brothers, Kenneth and Brian and sister-in-law Laura. He was predeceased by parents Kenneth and Ellen. Visiting hours are from noon to 4 p.m. on Sunday. A Mass is set for 10:30 a.m. Monday at St. Francis R…

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Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Small diesel spill outside hospital brings Rochelle Park firefighters Small diesel spill outside hospital brings Rochelle Park firefighters Small diesel spill outside hospital brings Rochelle Park firefighters
Small diesel spill outside hospital brings Rochelle Park firefighters ONLY ON CVP: Authorities were trying to trace the source of a small diesel spill tonight outside an acute care facility and nursing home in Rochelle Park. The 30-gallon spill at Select Specialty Hospital-Northeast New Jersey, next to the Bristol Manor Nursing Home on Parkway, brought firefighters and a request for the state DEP around 7:40 p.m. STORY / PHOTOS: Boyd A. Loving

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Bergenfield, NJ
Breaking News
Bergen freeholder committee pitches budget that lowers taxes with sheriff’s help Bergen freeholder committee pitches budget that lowers taxes with sheriff’s help Bergen freeholder committee pitches budget that lowers taxes with sheriff’s help
Bergen freeholder committee pitches budget that lowers taxes with sheriff’s help YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A projected $500,000 in revenue from Bergen County Sheriff Michael Saudino’s office helped the freeholders’ budget committee craft a fiscal 2014 county spending plan that reduces taxes for the first time in history — slashing a $7.3 million tax hike proposed by Executive Kathleen Donovan, a spokesman said tonight. The 2014-15 budget calls for a tax levy that’s $117,077 less than last year’s, the first overall tax cut in recent memory, said Peter Botsolas, the freeholder’s director of policy and communications. The freeholders’ Budget Committee cut $6.8 million in s…

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Northern Valley, NJ
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Harrington Park man caught in River Vale gets 5 years for fatal Jersey City hit-and-run Harrington Park man caught in River Vale gets 5 years for fatal Jersey City hit-and-run Harrington Park man caught in River Vale gets 5 years for fatal Jersey City hit-and-run
Harrington Park man caught in River Vale gets 5 years for fatal Jersey City hit-and-run  (via NJ.com) Staring straight ahead, a grimacing John Dineen fidgeted with a rosary bead behind his back as he was sentenced to five years in prison earlier this morning for a fatal hit-and-run. At around midnight on July 15, 2010, Dineen was driving his 2009 Toyota…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Highlands, NJ
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Waldwick woman, 66, critically injured in head-on crash on Wyckoff, Ridgewood border Waldwick woman, 66, critically injured in head-on crash on Wyckoff, Ridgewood border Waldwick woman, 66, critically injured in head-on crash on Wyckoff, Ridgewood border
Waldwick woman, 66, critically injured in head-on crash on Wyckoff, Ridgewood border YOU SAW IT HERE FIRST: A 66-year-old Waldwick woman was critically injured after her car crossed a double-yellow line and slammed head-on into a UPS tractor-trailer in Wyckoff this afternoon. The Mazda Protege was headed northbound on Goffle Road in Ridgewood, crossed the double yellow line into Wyckoff and collided with the Overnight Trucking/UPS rig just after 2 p.m. Wyckoff firefighters used the Jaws of Life to free the woman, who was taken by Ridgewood EMS to St. Joseph’s Medical Center in Paterson with severe traumatic injuries. A paramedic unit from The Valley Hospital in Ridgewoo…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Valley, NJ
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Prosecutor: Northvale man got girl, 11, to send him sexual photos Prosecutor: Northvale man got girl, 11, to send him sexual photos Prosecutor: Northvale man got girl, 11, to send him sexual photos
Prosecutor: Northvale man got girl, 11, to send him sexual photos YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Northvale man posed as a teenaged girl to get an 11-year-old girl to send him sexual photographs, Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said this afternoon. Detectives found electronic evidence of the alleged crime after arresting 22-year-old Briane Bulaon on April 21 for showing pornographic images to another child, Molinelli said. They uncovered more than 100 images overall, the prosecutor said. Bulaon used social media “to pose as a teenage girl and initiate an online relationship with the victim,” whom he convinced “to create and electronically send im…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Pascack Valley, NJ
Breaking News
Park Ridge doc among dozen charged in accident victim referral ring Park Ridge doc among dozen charged in accident victim referral ring Park Ridge doc among dozen charged in accident victim referral ring
Park Ridge doc among dozen charged in accident victim referral ring YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Park Ridge doctor was one of a dozen people involved in a ring that recruited car crash victims for chiropractic treatment, legal assistance and other services, state authorities said. Mark Schwartz, 48, who owns MLS Medical on Kinderkamack Road in Park Ridge, and 55-year-old David Walker, a personal injury lawyer out of Rockaway, both made illegal payments to the ringleaders “to have accident victims referred to them as clients,” acting state Attorney General John J. Hoffman said in announcing their arrests this afternoon. Schwartz and Walker were named in a 45-…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Willie, Mickey, Duke baseball among items at Bergen prosecutor’s sports memorabilia auction Willie, Mickey, Duke baseball among items at Bergen prosecutor’s sports memorabilia auction Willie, Mickey, Duke baseball among items at Bergen prosecutor’s sports memorabilia auction
Willie, Mickey, Duke baseball among items at Bergen prosecutor’s sports memorabilia auction SHOUT OUT: The baseball diamond will be Bergen County taxpayers’ best friend during a public auction this Saturday of confiscated sports memorabilia in Mahwah. More than 250 lots will be offered, along with web-simulcast bidding will be available for those who can’t make it to the Bergen County Law & Public Safety Institute Hall of Heroes Auditorium, 281 Campgaw Road. Among the treasured collectibles: Baseballs autographed by Joe DiMaggio, Lou Gehrig, Walter Johnson, Rogers Hornsby and Napoleon LaJoie; A single ball signed by Willie, Micky and the Duke (Mays, Mantle, Snider); Tr…

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