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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Paramus, NJ
Breaking News
Public safety warning: Paramus police join national initiative: ‘U Drive. U Text. U Pay.’ Public safety warning: Paramus police join national initiative: ‘U Drive. U Text. U Pay.’ Public safety warning: Paramus police join national initiative: ‘U Drive. U Text. U Pay.’
Public safety warning: Paramus police join national initiative: ‘U Drive. U Text. U Pay.’ PUBLIC SAFETY: Paramus police are joining a new national campaign to crack down on distracted drivers. For three weeks beginning April 1, they’ll have patrols out targeting drivers who “engage in dangerous distracted driving behaviors such as talking on hand-held cell phones and sending text messages while driving,” Deputy Police Chief Robert Guidetti said. Following in the tradition of “Click It or Ticket” and “Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over,” the national campaign has its own clever slogan: “UDrive. UText. UPay” Thousands of people are killed each year and an estimated half-million or…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
‘Kiss’ vandals caught: Saddle Brook police charging two, seek two more ‘Kiss’ vandals caught: Saddle Brook police charging two, seek two more ‘Kiss’ vandals caught: Saddle Brook police charging two, seek two more
‘Kiss’ vandals caught: Saddle Brook police charging two, seek two more YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Saddle Brook police tonight were questioning two 16-year-old boys and seeking two more who they said all wore Kiss masks while smashing more than two dozen cars on the lot of an auto body shop during a videotaped rampage. As it turned out, the masks were actually promotional knit caps with eyelet cutouts that were stolen from a van parked in an industrial part of town. “Many different aspects combined to reach a successful conclusion,” Police Chief Robert Kugler told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. “There was forensic analysis of evidence left behind, massive dissemination by …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Fort Lee police stop nets $27K in iPhones bought with stolen credit cards Fort Lee police stop nets $27K in iPhones bought with stolen credit cards Fort Lee police stop nets $27K in iPhones bought with stolen credit cards
Fort Lee police stop nets $27K in iPhones bought with stolen credit cards YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A detective found dozens of iPhones worth more than $27,000 that were bought with stolen credit card numbers were found during a traffic stop that led to three arrests near the lower level tolls of the George Washington Bridge, Fort Lee police said tonight. Detective Timothy Cullen also found 52 gift cards – all bearing the stolen numbers on their magnetic strips – that Police Chief Keith Bendul said were used to buy the iPhones at various malls in Pennsylvania. Police also seized $3,800 in cash. Two women and man, all from Queens, were arrested after Cullen stoppe…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Driver admits role in 40-kilo, $1M drug deal Driver admits role in 40-kilo, $1M drug deal Driver admits role in 40-kilo, $1M drug deal
Driver admits role in 40-kilo, $1M drug deal EXCLUSIVE: A Los Angeles man who was part of a drug-trafficking crew that kept an apartment in Hackensack today admitted driving 40 kilos of cocaine from California to New Jersey with an associate for an expected $1 million in cash. The third of four defendants to plead guilty in the case, 31-year-old Juan Roque told a judge in Hackensack that he and fellow trucking company employee Carlos Marroquin made the delivery. He also agreed to testify against Marroquin, who is due in court Monday to announce whether he’s taking a plea, as well, or going to trial. Juan Roque (STORY / PHOTOS: Mar…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
Breaking News
Feds: Man in Bergen-linked teen sex trafficking ran hooker ring from jail Feds: Man in Bergen-linked teen sex trafficking ran hooker ring from jail Feds: Man in Bergen-linked teen sex trafficking ran hooker ring from jail
Feds: Man in Bergen-linked teen sex trafficking ran hooker ring from jail YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A man awaiting trial on charges of sex trafficking a minor continued to run a prostitution ring out of New Jersey and Pennsylvania while locked up in the Essex County jail, a federal grand jury indictment returned today in Newark says. Francisco Torrellas of Allentown — also known as “Dream,” “Daddy,” and “Pretty” — has remained in the Essex County Correctional Facility since his arrest in May 2012. At the time, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman said the defendant “acted as a pimp,” employing young women — one of whom was a 16-year-old girl — to work for him as prostit…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Highlands, NJ
Breaking News
Cyclist injured in county bike path fall Cyclist injured in county bike path fall Cyclist injured in county bike path fall
Cyclist injured in county bike path fall A female bicycle rider was brought to the hospital with a head injury after crashing in a mud-covered section of the Saddle River County Bike Path in Paramus on this first afternoon of Spring 2014. The crash occured on a section of the popular bike path that traverses under Route 4, just west of Paramus Road. Responding were Bergen County and Fair Lawn police, Fair Lawn EMS and a paramedic unit from St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center in Paterson. STORY / PHOTO: Boyd A. Loving  

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by Jerry DeMarco
Bergenfield, NJ
Breaking News
Chief: Owner of van in Dumont luring investigation to talk with police Chief: Owner of van in Dumont luring investigation to talk with police Chief: Owner of van in Dumont luring investigation to talk with police
Chief: Owner of van in Dumont luring investigation to talk with police BREAKING NEWS UPDATE (4:30 p.m.): The owner of a van being sought in a possible luring attempt this afternoon told authorities that the report was mistaken and that he was coming to speak with them, Dumont Police Chief Joseph Falbourn told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. “He said it wasn’t him,” Falbourn said. The incident reportedly occurred at the corner of New Milford and Washington avenues just before 3:45. The driver was described only as Hispanic and “small.” Dumont police were given a license plate number of his 2006 Ford Econoline van, however. The number was broadcast and published on CLI…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
‘Bergen bandit’ charged in Hasbrouck Heights, Elmwood Park robberies, bail at $2.25M ‘Bergen bandit’ charged in Hasbrouck Heights, Elmwood Park robberies, bail at $2.25M ‘Bergen bandit’ charged in Hasbrouck Heights, Elmwood Park robberies, bail at $2.25M
‘Bergen bandit’ charged in Hasbrouck Heights, Elmwood Park robberies, bail at $2.25M EXCLUSIVE: A man believed responsible for a string of Bergen County holdups last weekend was charged with three of them today — two by Hasbrouck Heights police and one by Elmwood Park authorities. The charges were filed moments after 21-year-old Hamilton Sanchez-Olmo has his first court appearance at the Bergen County Jail. Combined, they more than doubled Sanchez-Olmo’s bail to $2.25 million from the amount set following his arrest just after midnight Monday in Lodi following a 7-Eleven holdup. Garfield police were expected to follow suit, as well. A Bergen County Police Department K9 …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
Breaking News
Englewood police street stop turns up two guns, fully loaded, hollow-nose bullets Englewood police street stop turns up two guns, fully loaded, hollow-nose bullets Englewood police street stop turns up two guns, fully loaded, hollow-nose bullets
Englewood police street stop turns up two guns, fully loaded, hollow-nose bullets YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Englewood police late last night arrested a city man who they said was carrying a pair of loaded handguns — along with extra ammo — thanks to an alert citizen. “We’re trying to determine why he had so much firepower,” Detective Capt. Timothy Torell told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. Marion Pearson, 43, had a Glock 9mm semi-automatic and a Taurus .38-caliber revolver — “both fully loaded with hollow-nosed bullets and ready to go,” Torell said. “He also had a number of extra bullets on him.” Several officers converged on the 6-foot, 215-pound Pearson just before midnight, after…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Rutherford, NJ
Breaking News
DNA match on ski mask leads Rutherford police to arrest in burglaries DNA match on ski mask leads Rutherford police to arrest in burglaries DNA match on ski mask leads Rutherford police to arrest in burglaries
DNA match on ski mask leads Rutherford police to arrest in burglaries YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A ski mask left at the scene of a burglary produced a DNA match to a probationer who Rutherford police have charged with that break-in, as well as another. Detective Thomas Lewis found the balaclava (similar to the one above) at a burglarized Park Avenue home on Feb. 27, 2012. Detectiive. Brian Shore of the Bergen County Sheriff’s Department Bureau of Criminal Identification then submitted it to the New Jersey State Police Lab for a DNA analysis. As a result, Rutherford police on Tuesday arrested 46-year-old Jose Medina of Belleville in connection with the break-…

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