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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Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
Breaking News
VIDEO: ‘Hoodlum’ vandals in Kiss masks damage dozens of cars in Saddle Brook VIDEO: ‘Hoodlum’ vandals in Kiss masks damage dozens of cars in Saddle Brook VIDEO: ‘Hoodlum’ vandals in Kiss masks damage dozens of cars in Saddle Brook
Video: ‘Hoodlum’ vandals in Kiss masks damage dozens of cars in Saddle Brook YOU SAW IT HERE FIRST: What Saddle Brook police called “a pack of hoodlum” in masks similar to the painted face of guitarist Paul Stanley from the band Kiss smashed more than two dozen cars on the lot of an auto body shop during a violent 20-minute rampage caught on video. Saddle Brook police released the video to CLIFFVIEW PILOT this morning in the hopes of identifying the quartet responsible for the damage, which Deputy Police Chief Robert White said was estimated at more than $40,000. The vandals — described as in their teens to early 20s — struck before dark last Saturday night out…

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Ridgewood, NJ
Breaking News
No one hurt as tree crashes into Ridgewood house No one hurt as tree crashes into Ridgewood house No one hurt as tree crashes into Ridgewood house
No one hurt as tree crashes into Ridgewood house YOU SAW IT HERE FIRST: A Ridgewood family with young children escaped injury when a large tree came crashing through the roof of their single-family home during last night’s severe winds. Damage to the house appeared moderate and the family was permitted to remain inside as firefighters checked the structure to ensure there were no natural gas leaks or broken pipes following the incident in the 400 block of Farview Street just after 11:30 p.m.. Electric service to the home was severed when the tree fell, but a troubleshooter from PSE&G responded to the scene in a bucket truck and rest…

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Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
Breaking News
Leonia police report second luring attempt, same man Leonia police report second luring attempt, same man Leonia police report second luring attempt, same man
Leonia police report second luring attempt, same man HAVE YOU SEEN HIM? Two Leonia girls today told police they were approached yesterday by the same man described by two other girls in another luring attempt, Police Chief Thomas Rowe told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. In the incident reported yesterday, two young girls told police they were walking on Hillside Avenue at the intersection of Wood Terrace around 4:30 p.m. when a light blue, 4-door, older model vehicle with New Jersey license plates pulled up. The driver first asked for directions, then “made a very inappropriate sexual comment to them,” Rowe told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. The girls told police t…

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Rutherford, NJ
Breaking News
Route 3 East reopened for morning commute after overpass crash Route 3 East reopened for morning commute after overpass crash Route 3 East reopened for morning commute after overpass crash
Route 3 East reopened for morning commute after overpass crash UPDATE: Eastbound Route 3 in Rutherford reopened before the rush hour this morning, following an incident yesterday in which a pole attached to a truck being towed slammed into the Ridge Road . The overpass remained closed. State Department of Transportation and PSE&G crews worked through the night to ensure the overpass and highway were safe. The problem, authorities said, is a natural gas line that runs alongside a structural beam that was damaged when  the pole struck the overpass, which connects Lyndhurst and Rutherford, just before 3:30 p.m. The impact broke loose concrete and …

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Northern Highlands, NJ
Breaking News
Car splits utility pole on Route 17 in Paramus Car splits utility pole on Route 17 in Paramus Car splits utility pole on Route 17 in Paramus
Car splits utility pole on Route 17 in Paramus YOU SAW IT HERE FIRST: A female driver was transported to a hospital by ambulance after her Honda Accord sheared off the bottom half of a utility pole on northbound Route 17 this afternoon. Two lanes of the highway were closed near Sears Drive so the vehicle and some debris could be removed and fuel spill cleaned up. No power or telecommunications outages were reported in the area. Bergen County and Paramus police and Paramus firefighters and EMS all responded, along with a paramedic unit from Hackensack University Medical Center. Crews from PSE&G arrived within a half hour to ass…

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Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Ecuadoran immigrant charged with having sex with underage Moonachie girl Ecuadoran immigrant charged with having sex with underage Moonachie girl Ecuadoran immigrant charged with having sex with underage Moonachie girl
Ecuadoran immigrant charged with having sex with underage Moonachie girl YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A 25-year-old Ecuadoran national was being held on $300,000 bail following his arrest on charges of having sex with an underage girl for two years beginning when she was 13. The girl’s father called Moonachie police on Monday, after which she was interviewed by members of the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Special Victims Unit. Detectives then arrested Luis Remache of Lookout Avenue in Hackensack yesterday, Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said. Remache, who Molinelli said had sex with the girl until a year ago, is charged with aggravated sexual assault and…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
Breaking News
Ridgefield Park police seek pair in possible luring attempt of boy, 10 Ridgefield Park police seek pair in possible luring attempt of boy, 10 Ridgefield Park police seek pair in possible luring attempt of boy, 10
Ridgefield Park police seek pair in possible luring attempt of boy, 10 HAVE YOU SEEN HIM? It could have been reckless horseplay, but Ridgefield Park police are treating very seriously a possible luring attempt involving two men in an SUV, one of whom made an inappropriate comment to a 10-year-old boy on a bicycle. A New Jersey State Police sketch artist produced a rendering of the driver (above) after detectives interviewed the youngster. The encounter doesn’t match recent luring incidents in Leonia, Norwood or in other nearby towns, Capt. Daniel Hippe told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. However, he said: “We’re treating this very seriously and doing whatever we can to …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Bergen prosecutor: Wrong-way driver drunk in Route 46 head-on crash in Elmwood Park Bergen prosecutor: Wrong-way driver drunk in Route 46 head-on crash in Elmwood Park Bergen prosecutor: Wrong-way driver drunk in Route 46 head-on crash in Elmwood Park
Bergen prosecutor: Wrong-way driver drunk in Route 46 head-on crash in Elmwood Park YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Both drivers were arrested and charged in a wrong-way head-on crash on Route 46 in Elmwood Park before dawn this morning that seriously injured a 25-year-old Lyndhurst female passenger, Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said this afternoon. Stephen Baker, 25, of Newark was drunk and driving west in the eastbound lanes of the highway when his 2000 Mitsubishi GS slammed into a 1970 Mercury Cougar driven by 25-year-old Harry Halvorson III of Wallington at about 1:30 a.m. today, the prosecutor said. “The Cougar immediately caught fire and began burning on t…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Rutherford, NJ
Breaking News
Port Authority police grab sex offender in groping of woman, 20 Port Authority police grab sex offender in groping of woman, 20 Port Authority police grab sex offender in groping of woman, 20
Port Authority police grab sex offender in groping of woman, 20 YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A witness helped lead Port Authority police to a registered sex offender who they said groped a young woman waiting for a train at Journal Square before dawn this morning. Joel Perez, 33, was carrying a gravity knife in his pocket when police grabbed him in the station following the 4:40 a.m. incident on the platform, the authority’s Joseph Pentangelo told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. They found the 5-foot-10, 190-pound Perez based on a description given by the victim and a witness, Pentangelo said. Perez was charged with criminal sexual contact and two weapons counts — one …

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Tappan-Blauvelt, NY
Breaking News
PHOTOS: Two buildings collapse in East Harlem explosion, shock felt in NJ PHOTOS: Two buildings collapse in East Harlem explosion, shock felt in NJ PHOTOS: Two buildings collapse in East Harlem explosion, shock felt in NJ
Photos: Two buildings collapse in East Harlem explosion, shock felt in NJ SPECIAL REPORT: Seven people were confirmed dead, more than five dozen were injured and several were still listed as missing following an explosion in East Harlem that leveled two five-story buildings. Thick smoke engulfed the neighborhood at 116th Street and Park Avenue after the 9 a.m. explosion, which also shattered windows in surrounding buildings. The shock of the blast — believed caused by a gas leak — could be felt along the Palisades. No total had immediately been established for those unaccounted for. The hole where firefighters doused flames from ladder trucks became pile…

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