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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Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Big blue turnout for court appearance of accused shooter of undercover Paramus officer Big blue turnout for court appearance of accused shooter of undercover Paramus officer Big blue turnout for court appearance of accused shooter of undercover Paramus officer
Big blue turnout for court appearance of accused shooter of undercover Paramus officer YOU SAW IT HERE FIRST: A Paterson man accused of shooting a Paramus police officer during an undercover operation in Garfield last week was brought to court in Hackensack today handcuffed to a wheelchair amid heightened security and a large police turnout. New Jersey Deputy Attorney General Andrew C. Fried read the charges against Rafael Vasquez — attempted murder, aggravated assault, robbery, violating parole and weapons offenses, including being an ex-con possessing a firearm. Public Defender Jaclyn Medina entered a not-guilty plea on behalf of Vasquez, whose arm was in a modified sl…

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Paterson, NJ
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Jersey City man killed two, chopped off heads, hands, buried everything, indictment says Jersey City man killed two, chopped off heads, hands, buried everything, indictment says Jersey City man killed two, chopped off heads, hands, buried everything, indictment says
Jersey City man killed two, chopped off heads, hands, buried everything, indictment says BEYOND BERGEN: A Jersey City man shot two men dead, cut off their heads and hands, and buried the remains in South Jersey, a state grand jury indictment alleges. Yusuf Ibrahim, 29, shot Egyptian nationals Hany Tawadros, 25, and 27-year-old Amgad Konds once each in the chest with a .38-caliber handgun inside Konds’ white Mercedes C280 after abducting them in the early morning hours of Feb. 5, 2013, the indictment handed up in Trenton says. He then got behind the wheel and drove the bodies to Buena Vista, NJ, where he took their money and jewelry, cut off their heads and hands using a small…

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Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Lodi fire marshal going to trial in alleged abuse of elderly mother Lodi fire marshal going to trial in alleged abuse of elderly mother Lodi fire marshal going to trial in alleged abuse of elderly mother
Lodi fire marshal going to trial in alleged abuse of elderly mother YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A judge in Hackensack today set a June 2 trial date for a Lodi fire marshal on charges of abusing his elderly mother. With the deadline for a plea deal expired, Presiding Superior Court Judge Liliana DeAvila-Silebi scheduled 58-year-old Paul Wanco for trial. Wanco is accused of deliberately leaving his mother lying on the floor in her own urine and feces for nearly 15 hours. Florence Wanco, 90, died last month, a little over a year after the March 5, 2013 incident. An indictment returned by a grand jury in Hackensack charges Wanco with elder abuse and aggravate…

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Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
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Mahwah police make red-handed arrest in meat market burglary Mahwah police make red-handed arrest in meat market burglary Mahwah police make red-handed arrest in meat market burglary
Mahwah police make red-handed arrest in meat market burglary YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Mahwah police arrested a Rockland County man moments after they said he broke into a popular local butcher shop, rifled through the cash register and fled with a bleeding hand. Officer Stacy Conley responded to a 911 call from a resident who heard broken glass just after 10:30 p.m. and found the front glass door of Janek’s Meat Market on Ramapo Valley Road broken out, Police Chief James Batelli said early this afternoon. He then spotted 25-year-old Colm King Jr. of Blauvelt walking out a backdoor leading to apartments above the business, Batelli said. King wasn’t…

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Beekman-Poughquag, NY
Breaking News
Man, woman pulled from Hudson die after bridge plunge Man, woman pulled from Hudson die after bridge plunge Man, woman pulled from Hudson die after bridge plunge
Man, woman pulled from Hudson die after bridge plunge YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Authorities said that a man and woman who died shortly after being pulled from the Hudson River early this afternoon apparently jumped into the water together from the George Washington Bridge. The couple were plucked from the river by New York City police and fire responders about 1,000 yards south of the bridge around 12:10 p.m. A half-hour earlier, workers working mid-span on the bridge reported seeing “something out of their peripheral vision go by them from above to  below,” said Joseph Pentangelo of the Port Authority Police Deparatment. “The workers then saw…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Police chase Fort Lee man from Ridgefield to Englewood Police chase Fort Lee man from Ridgefield to Englewood Police chase Fort Lee man from Ridgefield to Englewood
Police chase Fort Lee man from Ridgefield to Englewood Police chased a Fort Lee man from the Vince Lombardi rest stop through several towns overnight before cornering him in an Englewood apartment. They finally found Edward Lawrence Jones — who turned 46 today — hiding in a Rock Creek Terrace apartment around 12:30 a.m., a law enforcement source told CLIFFVIEW PILOT this morning. NJSP Trooper Jeff Flynn confirmed that troopers began chasing Jones at the New Jersey Turnpike rest stop in Ridgfield around 10 o’clock last night after he called 911 several times to report that he was being followed by dozens of cars. After ignoring the troopers …

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Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Elmwood Park man set to admit stalking, breaking in, videotaping ex having sex Elmwood Park man set to admit stalking, breaking in, videotaping ex having sex Elmwood Park man set to admit stalking, breaking in, videotaping ex having sex
Elmwood Park man set to admit stalking, breaking in, videotaping ex having sex ONLY ON CVP: An Elmwood Park man charged with stalking his ex-wife, breaking into her house and secretly videotaping her having sex with another man is expected to plead guilty today to lesser offenses — but it’s far from a sure thing. Lorenz Hen, 45, cut a similar deal with prosecutors last month for what were four indictments at the time. He then pulled out of the plea deal at his sentencing. Last Monday, he was scheduled to go before a judge in Hackensack to get a trial date on a whopping seven indictments in all, but his lawyer said that Hen left the courthouse for a supervised visit wi…

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Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
Breaking News
‘Stink bomb’ prompts response at RPHS ‘Stink bomb’ prompts response at RPHS ‘Stink bomb’ prompts response at RPHS
‘Stink bomb’ prompts response at Rphs YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A suspicious device that forced a brief lockdown at Ridgefield Park High School this morning was a previously used “stink bomb,” a source with direct knowledge of the incident told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. Only 7th- and 8th-graders were in the building for statewide Assessment and Evaluation testing when an officer found what at first glance looked like a grenade in the school parking lot just after 8 a.m. Students in the 9th through 12th grades hadn’t arrived yet. FILE PHOTO: Boyd A. Loving  

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Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Breaking News
Five years in prison for woman who swindled Lenora Klein, Bergen elite Five years in prison for woman who swindled Lenora Klein, Bergen elite Five years in prison for woman who swindled Lenora Klein, Bergen elite
Five years in prison for woman who swindled Lenora Klein, Bergen elite EXCLUSIVE: “She deceived us into thinking she was an honest, loving person,” Alpine philanthropist Lenora Klein said of a woman sentenced to five years in prison for swindling her, her husband and others out of more than $715,000 in a Ponzi scheme. The victims included John and Lenora Kleins’ two boys, who are now teenagers but were grade-schoolers when Dunya Predovan was their part-time caretaker from 2004-2012. Predovan took “all the money they had saved from every birthday and holiday,” Klein wrote in a letter read during Friday’s sentencing. “They now refuse to put money in the banks.…

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Fort Lee, NJ
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New Palisades Interstate Parkway police chief, lieutenant, officers being sworn in New Palisades Interstate Parkway police chief, lieutenant, officers being sworn in New Palisades Interstate Parkway police chief, lieutenant, officers being sworn in
New Palisades Interstate Parkway police chief, lieutenant, officers being sworn in SHOUT OUT: The Palisades Interstate Parkway Police Department swearing-in ceremony for its new chief, lieutenant and nine officers was moved to the Fort Lee High School gymnasium this Tuesday to accommodate an expected overflow crowd. It’s scheduled to begin at 6:30 p.m.  Sworn in will be: Police Chief Police Michael J. Coppola Lt. Roman Galloza Officer Jody Becker Officer Michael Byrnes Officer Dana Eustace Officer Joseph Fullam Officer Michael Griffin Officer Jeffrey Lamboy Officer Robert Littlejohn, Jr Officer Brian Meyer Officer Adam Temporale Guests include: Superior Court …

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