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
Port Authority Police Department graduates largest police recruiting class ever Port Authority Police Department graduates largest police recruiting class ever Port Authority Police Department graduates largest police recruiting class ever
Port Authority Police Department graduates largest police recruiting class ever SHOUT OUT: The Port Authority Police Department welcomed 275 prospective police officers — its largest recruiting class ever — to its 113th Police Academy class. After being welcomed by Port Authority Police Department leadership, the probationary officers — 225 men and 50 women, including 12 veterans of the U.S. Armed Forces — began a rigorous 26-week program at the academy at the Port Authority Technical Center in Jersey City. The previous record class in the authority’s 86-year history was set in 2002 following the 9/11 terror attacks, when 235 recruits were trained to help the agency …

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Hackensack, NJ
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Help needed: Blood drive for son of late Wallington Fire Capt. Greg Barnas Help needed: Blood drive for son of late Wallington Fire Capt. Greg Barnas Help needed: Blood drive for son of late Wallington Fire Capt. Greg Barnas
Help needed: Blood drive for son of late Wallington Fire Capt. Greg Barnas HOW YOU CAN HELP: The son of a Wallington fire captain who died fighting a restaurant fire is waging his own battle: John Barnas needs blood donations in his fight against leukemia. Thousands of firefighters, emergency workers and citizens attended a massive memorial procession Friday in honor of Gregory Barnas, a popular veteran firefighter who fell from a roof and died on Feb. 28 after serving the public for more than 40 years. The captain, who volunteered for the Wallington squad and worked for the Jersey City Fire Department, had been donating blood cells for John — who, with his brot…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Teaneck, NJ
Breaking News
Bogus I.R.S. agent, cop take Teaneck man for $7,000 in tax scam Bogus I.R.S. agent, cop take Teaneck man for $7,000 in tax scam Bogus I.R.S. agent, cop take Teaneck man for $7,000 in tax scam
Bogus I.R.S. agent, cop take Teaneck man for $7,000 in tax scam PUBLIC SAFETY ALERT: Police are stepping up their warnings to citizens against scammers who claim to be collecting outstanding tax debts for the I.R.S. after a Teaneck man got taken for $7,000 this weekend. The victim said the caller Saturday told him if he didn’t pay the money that day, Teaneck police would arrest him. He said he then got a call from someone pretending to be a Teaneck police officer. In both cases, Caller ID numbers showed the I.R.S. toll-free number and the one for township police. Fearing that he would be arrested, the victim followed the caller’s instructions to w…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Bergen jail inmate headed to trial in $1 million plot to kidnap Paramus businessman Bergen jail inmate headed to trial in $1 million plot to kidnap Paramus businessman Bergen jail inmate headed to trial in $1 million plot to kidnap Paramus businessman
Bergen jail inmate headed to trial in $1 million plot to kidnap Paramus businessman YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A judge in Hackensack today ordered an April 7 trial for a 67-year-old Bergen County Jail inmate who authorities said masterminded a plot last year to kidnap his former boss for $1 million after blocking the man’s son in an office and threatening him over a money dispute in 2011. His lawyer, however, said that Mohammed Ranko of Hasbrouck Heights would gladly accept a plea deal. Authorities say Ranko hatched the scheme from the River Street jail, where he’s been held since November 2011 pending trial on charges of kidnapping, aggravated assault and threatening to ki…

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Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
New Jersey lawmakers look to boost number of gun buybacks New Jersey lawmakers look to boost number of gun buybacks New Jersey lawmakers look to boost number of gun buybacks
New Jersey lawmakers look to boost number of gun buybacks PUBLIC SAFETY: A state legislative committee this morning sent a bill to the full Assembly calling for the Attorney General’s Office to conduct at nine gun backbacks statewide each year — with three each in New Jersey’s north, south and central regions. At least one buyback in each would have to be in an urban, high crime area. “We realize a gun buyback program alone will not eliminate gun violence,” said Assemblyman John McKeon, D-Essex, “but it can help enhance public safety by reducing the number of firearms in circulation.” Acting Attorney General John J. Hoffman’s office has held t…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Pedestrian out for morning walk struck by pickup in Ridgefield Pedestrian out for morning walk struck by pickup in Ridgefield Pedestrian out for morning walk struck by pickup in Ridgefield
Pedestrian out for morning walk struck by pickup in Ridgefield YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A 53-year-old Ridgefield man out for his morning walk may have stepped between two parked cars when he was struck by a pickup truck just before 6 o’clock this morning, police said. The pedestrian was reported in serious but stable condition late this morning at Hackensack University Medical Center. The Banta Place resident was walking west to east across the southbound lane of Broad Avenue when he was struck by the truck, driven by a man headed to work in North Bergen from Deer Park, N.Y., Capt. Richard Besser told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. Police were investigating “wher…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Bergen County Sheriff: Wrong-way Lodi driver in Garfield had heroin in trunk Bergen County Sheriff: Wrong-way Lodi driver in Garfield had heroin in trunk Bergen County Sheriff: Wrong-way Lodi driver in Garfield had heroin in trunk
Bergen County Sheriff: Wrong-way Lodi driver in Garfield had heroin in trunk YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A 26-year-old Lodi motorist stopped for heading the wrong way down a one-way street in Garfield after cutting off other cars had 120 envelopes of heroin in a tool box in his trunk, a spokesman for the Bergen County Sheriff’s Office said this morning. Sheriff Officer Krzysztof Wojtylo stopped the gold Buick after Daniel Mactaggart took the turn from Lanza Avenue onto eastbound Madeline Avenue headed west, Dave Martinez told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. Mactaggart “began to act very nervous,” Wojtylo reported. “[H]is carotid artery was pulsating, his breathing was rapid and shal…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Teaneck, NJ
Breaking News
Port Authority police arrest homeless woman in bus terminal beating of West New York man, 80 Port Authority police arrest homeless woman in bus terminal beating of West New York man, 80 Port Authority police arrest homeless woman in bus terminal beating of West New York man, 80
Port Authority police arrest homeless woman in bus terminal beating of West New York man, 80 YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: An 80-year-old West New York man waiting for his wife outside a Port Authority bus terminal rest room in Manhattan was being beaten by a homeless woman before PAPD officers pulled her off, a spokesman said. Port Authority Police officers Tom Kimble and Michael Birnstill were on patrol in the midtown terminal yesterday morning when they saw the assault. The victim told them that Riley came up, knocked him down “for no apparent reason” and began kicking him with her work boots, the authority’s Joseph Pentangelo told CLIFFVIEW PIlOT. The officers who arrested teh 5-…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Breaking News
Convicted Fair Lawn rapist gets 6½ years, insists he’s innocent Convicted Fair Lawn rapist gets 6½ years, insists he’s innocent Convicted Fair Lawn rapist gets 6½ years, insists he’s innocent
Convicted Fair Lawn rapist gets 6½ years, insists he’s innocent ONLY ON CVP: A Fair Lawn man convicted of sodomizing his live-in girlfriend with the steel toe of a construction boot must spend at least the next 6½ years in prison before he’s eligible for parole. George R. Sanchez, 55, was sentenced to ten years but got credit for the past two that he spent behind bars awaiting his trial and sentencing. He must serve 85% of the remainder of his time before he’s eligible for release — six years and eight months in all. He will then be on parole supervision for three years, under Superior Court Judge Edward A. Jerejian’s sentence. “He thought she was c…

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Lyndhurst, NJ
Breaking News
North Arlington police make arrest, recover gun moments after street robbery North Arlington police make arrest, recover gun moments after street robbery North Arlington police make arrest, recover gun moments after street robbery
North Arlington police make arrest, recover gun moments after street robbery YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: North Arlington police arrested a Brooklyn man minutes after they said he robbed two residents at gunpoint of $30 or so in cash on a borough street. The men were walking home around 3;30 this morning when they were held up by a man who pointed a silver handgun at them and demanded money, North Arlington Police Chief Louis Ghione told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. They dialed 911, providing a description, as he  fled, Ghione said The alleged gunman had shed his sweatshirt in an apparent attempt to throw police off when he was grabbed about five blocks away on Belleville Turnpik…

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