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
Jamaican national caught selling cocaine in Closter faces prison, deportation Jamaican national caught selling cocaine in Closter faces prison, deportation Jamaican national caught selling cocaine in Closter faces prison, deportation
Jamaican national caught selling cocaine in Closter faces prison, deportation EXCLUSIVE: A Jamaican man who has lived in the U.S. since 1991 will be deported once he serves at least 2½ years in prison after pleading guilty to selling cocaine up the street from Closter Borough Hall. Jeffrey Hennie, 33, told a judge in Hackensack yesterday that he was “waiting for a friend” last Sept. 25 in the Closter Plaza Shopping Center, then sold “a little over an ounce and two bags” of cocaine to him before a Closter detective spotted and arrested them. His friend, Thomas R. Novotny of Haskell, already cut a deal with prosecutors to plead guilty to possession of cocaine and agr…

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Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
Breaking News
Cliffside Park woman overcomes hurdles, named NJ child care group’s Teacher of the Year Cliffside Park woman overcomes hurdles, named NJ child care group’s Teacher of the Year Cliffside Park woman overcomes hurdles, named NJ child care group’s Teacher of the Year
Cliffside Park woman overcomes hurdles, named NJ child care group’s Teacher of the Year SHOUT OUT: Before her father died, Krystle Sanchez of Cliffside Park promised him that she’d make the high school honor roll. Not only did she fulfill his wish — Sanchez overcame a learning disability to graduate college and be honored this past weekend as the New Jersey Child Care Association Teacher of the Year. Sanchez, who attended her hometown’s school system K-12, “had struggles with learning and was evaluated and diagnosed with auditory processing difficulties,” said her mother, Mary Sanchez. “It affected her emotionally, educationally and somewhat socially.” Her parents never gave…

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Teaneck, NJ
Breaking News
Teaneck woman charged in sex-for-cash beating, robbery Teaneck woman charged in sex-for-cash beating, robbery Teaneck woman charged in sex-for-cash beating, robbery
Teaneck woman charged in sex-for-cash beating, robbery YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A 22-year-old Teaneck woman who police said offered an Englewood man sex for cash — only to lure him into a robbery in which he had his jaw broken, his arm dislocated and his teeth loosened — was indicted by a Bergen County grand jury for her alleged role in the assault. The indictment charges Latice Wilson with first-degree robbery and aggravated assault, among other offenses, in what police said was an attack on the 59-year-old man by her 17-year-old boyfriend. She’s also charged with conspiring with the teen to commit armed robbery. The man told investigators he…

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Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Five firefighters injured in four-alarm Paterson blaze Five firefighters injured in four-alarm Paterson blaze Five firefighters injured in four-alarm Paterson blaze
Five firefighters injured in four-alarm Paterson blaze YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Five firefighters sustained injuries not considered serious while battling a four-alarm Paterson blaze that spread to three buildings early this evening, an emergency services dispatcher told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. The fire in the three-story houses, one at the corner of 10th Avenue and East 23rd Street, brought mutual aid from several area towns, including Elmwood Park, Fair Lawn, Garfield, Hackensack., Paramus, Rochelle Park and Saddle Brook in Bergen County. Also responding were companies from Hawthorne, North Haledon, Totowa and Little Falls. One of the firefighter…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
School van driver hurt in Fair Lawn crash, student OK School van driver hurt in Fair Lawn crash, student OK School van driver hurt in Fair Lawn crash, student OK
School van driver hurt in Fair Lawn crash, student OK ONLY ON CVP: The driver of a school transportation van carrying a single teenage student was injured in a crash in Fair Lawn this afternoon. The Jaris Transportation Company van collided with a Mazda sedan on Elm Avenue between Maple Avenue and Harristown Road a little before 3 o’clock. The girl and sedan driver refused medical aid. The van’s driver was taken to St. Joseph’s Medical Center in Paterson with undetermined injuries that weren’t considered life-threatening. Elm Avenue was closed in both directions while the van and sedan were removed by separate flatbed tow trucks and the …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Garfield police seek public’s help finding teen who threw bottle that hit firefighter Garfield police seek public’s help finding teen who threw bottle that hit firefighter Garfield police seek public’s help finding teen who threw bottle that hit firefighter
Garfield police seek public’s help finding teen who threw bottle that hit firefighter YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Police are seeking the public’s help finding a group of teens who threw a bottle through the window of a Garfield fire truck, hitting a female firefighter. The 22-year-old firefighter was treated at Hackensack University Medical Center and released after being hit by broken glass around her eyes just after 10 p.m., authorities said. YOU READ IT HERE FIRST (April 1): Garfield police today charged a 16-year-old high school boy with throwing a bottle last Friday night that smashed the window of a city firetruck, nearly blinding a female firefighter. READ MORE …. …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Ridgefield Park airline employee made boy, 13, strip, masturbate, indictment charges Ridgefield Park airline employee made boy, 13, strip, masturbate, indictment charges Ridgefield Park airline employee made boy, 13, strip, masturbate, indictment charges
Ridgefield Park airline employee made boy, 13, strip, masturbate, indictment charges YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: An airline employee from Ridgefield Park made a 13-year-old boy strip and masturbate in front of him before doing the same, an indictment handed up in Hackensack charges. Alex Castro, 50, was released on $150,000 bail from the Bergen County Jail on 9/11 of last year following his arrest a month earlier. Authorities initially announced that they charged Castro with having “inappropriate sexual conduct” with the youngster, whom they said he invited to his Teaneck Road home. The indictment returned by a Bergen County grand jury last week says the boy told authoritie…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgewood, NJ
Breaking News
Two BMWs, third car in Ridgewood chain-reaction crash Two BMWs, third car in Ridgewood chain-reaction crash Two BMWs, third car in Ridgewood chain-reaction crash
Two BMWs, third car in Ridgewood chain-reaction crash YOU SAW IT HERE FIRST: A chain-reaction crash in Ridgewood involving three vehicles — two of them BMW sedans — sent one of the drivers to The Valley Hospital with chest pains after she was slammed into her steering wheel. Both BMWs were towed from the scene at East Ridgewood Avenue near Heermance Place just before 5 p.m. The third vehicle had moderate rear-end damage and was driven away. Ridgewood firefighters were called to contain a minor fluid spill and to disconnect the batteries of both Beamers. East Ridgewood Avenue was closed eastbound between South Irving Street and Brookside …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Garfield-Lodi, NJ
Breaking News
Bergen prosecutor offers help to addicts, warns of penalties for drug-induced deaths Bergen prosecutor offers help to addicts, warns of penalties for drug-induced deaths Bergen prosecutor offers help to addicts, warns of penalties for drug-induced deaths
Bergen prosecutor offers help to addicts, warns of penalties for drug-induced deaths A PROSECUTOR WRITES: In a rare step for a lawman, Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli has extended the services of his office — without criminal charges — to anyone whose children, siblings or spouses have drug problems. At the same time, he warned parents that that their children could be prosecuted for sharing a drug — even a single Oxycodone pill — that kills someone. “Law enforcement today knows that making arrests is not always the answer to our problem,” Molinelli wrote, as part of a series of a series of open letters financed with money forfeited by criminals. Today’s hero…

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Garfield-Lodi, NJ
Breaking News
Man charged with dragging dog tied to car Man charged with dragging dog tied to car Man charged with dragging dog tied to car
Man charged with dragging dog tied to car BEYOND BERGEN: A 1-year-old Chihuahua mix named Roxy was recovering after being tied to a car and dragged down the street. Authorities in Atlantic Highlands said 49-year-old Keith Guastamacchia told them he stopped to let the dog relieve herself along Route 36 just before 11:30 Friday night. Guastamacchia told them he drove away after an upsetting phone call, forgetting that he’d tied the leash to a door handle, they said. A police officer, seeing what was happened, stopped and arrested Guastamacchia, who was charged with animal cruelty. “The actions of the alert officer, no doubt, sa…

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