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
Port Authority PD explosives detection dog, Phoenix, dies after long illness Port Authority PD explosives detection dog, Phoenix, dies after long illness Port Authority PD explosives detection dog, Phoenix, dies after long illness
Port Authority PD explosives detection dog, Phoenix, dies after long illness TRIBUTE: A valued and trusted member of the Port Authority Police Department, Phoenix the explosives detection dog, has died after a long bout with cancer. Phoenix, who was assigned to the Explosives Detection team of the PAPD K-9 Unit in 2007, worked with his partner, Officer Donald Golding, to search thousands of unattended bags, packages and parcels to help safeguard the area’s airports, seaports, terminals and PATH system for the traveling public. He was also involved in the Port Authority’s community outreach, through which children got to meet and play with him. “Phoenix never …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Speeding DWI driver flees crash with man, boy, 8, nearly hits officer, Carlstadt police say Speeding DWI driver flees crash with man, boy, 8, nearly hits officer, Carlstadt police say Speeding DWI driver flees crash with man, boy, 8, nearly hits officer, Carlstadt police say
Speeding DWI driver flees crash with man, boy, 8, nearly hits officer, Carlstadt police say YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A drunk Lodi driver crashed his car into another, injuring a man and his 8-year-old son, then nearly ran down a Carlstadt police officer who tried to stop him as he fled, authorities said this morning. Kenneth Haines, 24, registered a .19% blood alcohol content — more than twice the legal limit — after he was eventually stopped in Wallington, Carlstadt Police Chief Thomas Nielsen told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. Haines was behind the wheel of a 2012 Nissan Rogue that crossed the double-yellow line on Hoboken Road and slammed into a 2007 Ford Focus on Saturday, Nielsen said. …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
New Hackensack officer saves woman, 82, nabs robbery suspect, assists colleagues in brawl after chase New Hackensack officer saves woman, 82, nabs robbery suspect, assists colleagues in brawl after chase New Hackensack officer saves woman, 82, nabs robbery suspect, assists colleagues in brawl after chase
New Hackensack officer saves woman, 82, nabs robbery suspect, assists colleagues in brawl after chase ONLY ON CVP: A short time after reviving an 82-year-old woman who stopped breathing on a city street, Hackensack Police Officer Victor Vazquez arrested a wanted ex-con who’d been taunting him during a drug stop. But that wasn’t all. Hackensack Police Director Michael Mordaga tried calling Vazquez in to congratulate him this afternoon. But the officer apologized: He was helping subdue two men who led police on a chase that ended with a roadside brawl on Route 80 in Ridgefield Park. Vazquez came to the city department in November from the Bergen County Sheriff’s Office. “Only five month…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Highlands, NJ
Breaking News
Prosecutor: Garfield boy, 16, shared child porn Prosecutor: Garfield boy, 16, shared child porn Prosecutor: Garfield boy, 16, shared child porn
Prosecutor: Garfield boy, 16, shared child porn YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Authorities today detained a 16-year-old boy from Garfield who they said trafficked in online child pornography. Delinquent complaints charging the boy with child endangerment were signed, Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said. Molinelli said the teen “was using the Internet to acquire and transmit images and/or video files depicting child pornography.” “In this case,” he said, “the child pornography consisted of numerous images and/or videos of pre-pubescent children engaged in sexual acts. “The juvenile was released into the custody of his mother af…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Fort Lee police seek help finding man thought jumped from Palisades Fort Lee police seek help finding man thought jumped from Palisades Fort Lee police seek help finding man thought jumped from Palisades
Fort Lee police seek help finding man thought jumped from Palisades HAVE YOU SEEN HIM? Eight days after his car was abandoned in a park atop the Palisades, Fort Lee police are seeking the public’s help finding a 50-year-old married father of two. Loved ones said they last saw Hans Jong Lee a week ago yesterday at 11 a.m., Fort Lee Police Chief Keith Bendul said this afternoon. Nine hours later, Lee’s silver 2000 Honda CRV was found parked at the Rockefeller Lookout in Englewood Cliffs. Bendul’s squad was joined by a host of other agencies in a search of the cliffs – among them, the Palisades Interstate Parkway Police, the Englewood Cliffs Fire Departmen…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Ramsey police sergeants find three bricks of heroin, Molly in Route 17 stop Ramsey police sergeants find three bricks of heroin, Molly in Route 17 stop Ramsey police sergeants find three bricks of heroin, Molly in Route 17 stop
Ramsey police sergeants find three bricks of heroin, Molly in Route 17 stop YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Ramsey police arrested two Paterson men and seized three bricks of heroin and two bags of Molly after stopping their speeding car on Route 17 and spotting several cellphones and air fresheners inside, authorities said this afternoon. Sgt. Vasili Pieratos and Sgt. Michael Parise were on patrol near the Kentucky Fried Chicken on the southbound highway when they stopped the silver 2012 Nissan just after 11 p.m., Police Chief Bryan Gurney said. Besides the phones and fresheners, the sergeants noticed that both the driver, identified as 32-year-old Francisco A. Pena (ab…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
Breaking News
Englewood Cliffs mother, daughter charged in $300,000 real estate fraud Englewood Cliffs mother, daughter charged in $300,000 real estate fraud Englewood Cliffs mother, daughter charged in $300,000 real estate fraud
Englewood Cliffs mother, daughter charged in $300,000 real estate fraud YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A self-employed consultant from Englewood Cliffs and her daughter scammed clients out of $300,000 – sending some of the victims’ properties into foreclosure – for services that they said included attorney’s fees, escrow funds and processing costs, authorities said this afternoon. Instead, Anna Lee, 54, laundered the money through hers and her daughter’s personal accounts, then used it for herself, Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said. She and her daughter, 25-year-old Jennifer Lee of downtown Manhattan, were being held on $75,000 bail each in the Bergen …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Breaking News
Snow fooling — in April Snow fooling — in April Snow fooling — in April
Snow fooling — in April Today’s downpours are bringing not only flooding but possible snowflakes to North Jersey. “The cold front pushing this precipitation through is very strong and cold for this time of year,” Severe NJ Weather reports. “Non-accumulating snowflakes are possible at the tail-end of precipitation overnight.” The rain is moving north-northeast with heavy squalls and some thunder. There may be a slight break in the action, but that will be followed late this afternoon by the cold. So consider your budding plants. It’s begun already, in fact: Some areas of NJ are reporting temperature drops of …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Former college basketball player from Hackensack charged in rape of girl, 14 Former college basketball player from Hackensack charged in rape of girl, 14 Former college basketball player from Hackensack charged in rape of girl, 14
Former college basketball player from Hackensack charged in rape of girl, 14 YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A former college basketball player from Hackensack was charged with kidnapping, raping and endangering a 14-year-old girl he picked up at a Rochelle Park supermarket. Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli this afternoon confirmed an earlier report in CLIFFVIEW PILOT that detectives from his office and city police arrested 24-year-old Darion Benbow on Friday. Molinelli said Benbow picked up the girl at the Rochelle Park Shop Rite earlier that day and brought her to his Clinton Place apartment, where he gave  her alcohol and then had “sexual activity with her ag…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Overnight bomb threat in Garfield leads to evacuations, arrest Overnight bomb threat in Garfield leads to evacuations, arrest Overnight bomb threat in Garfield leads to evacuations, arrest
Overnight bomb threat in Garfield leads to evacuations, arrest YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A dozen Garfield residents were evacuated and a neighbor taken into custody following what police said was a bomb threat overnight. Garfield police conducting a Harrison Avenue welfare check just before 1 a.m. were met by 45-year-old Michael Kapotis, who “made suicidal threats,” Capt. Darren Sucorowski said this morning. As the officers tried to take him to a hospital for a mental evaluation, Kapotis “became verbally abusive and combative,” shoving one officer and resisting attempts to handcuff him, Sucorowski said. He also repeatedly said he had a bomb in the…

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