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
Saddle Brook police get three experienced officers from Hudson County sheriff Saddle Brook police get three experienced officers from Hudson County sheriff Saddle Brook police get three experienced officers from Hudson County sheriff
Saddle Brook police get three experienced officers from Hudson County sheriff YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Three Hudson County Sheriff’s officers are becoming Saddle Brook police officers, giving the depleted department a long-awaited boost. Officer Norma Aedo, Adam Georgaros and Irving Gutierrez begin eight weeks of field training on March 24, Police Chief Robert Kugler told CLIFFVIEW PILOT tonight. All have between five and seven years experience with the sheriff’s office in Hudson County, the chief said. “The new hires are utilizing the NJ Civil Service Commission’s Intergovernmental Transfer Program,” Kugler said. “Under ITP rules, officers from civil service jurisd…

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Lyndhurst, NJ
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Lyndhurst police arrest two in Super Bowl tickets robbery Lyndhurst police arrest two in Super Bowl tickets robbery Lyndhurst police arrest two in Super Bowl tickets robbery
Lyndhurst police arrest two in Super Bowl tickets robbery YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Lyndhurst police have arrested a man who they said robbed a Super Bowl ticket buyer of $1,200 a day before the big game — as well as a woman who they said set the victim up. Stephanie Diaz, 21, lured the victim to her Lyndhurst apartment, where 24-year-old Franklin Noble of East Orange and another man robbed him at gunpoint, Police Chief James O’Connor said tonight. The pair took the cash, along with the 21-year-old Nutley victim’s car keys and a cellphone — both of which the chief said were recovered at Diaz’s Page Avenue apartment. The victim wasn’t injured, he…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Indictment: Cliffside Park man threatened to hurt girl if she told of seven years of sex assaults Indictment: Cliffside Park man threatened to hurt girl if she told of seven years of sex assaults Indictment: Cliffside Park man threatened to hurt girl if she told of seven years of sex assaults
Indictment: Cliffside Park man threatened to hurt girl if she told of seven years of sex assaults ONLY ON CVP: Beginning when she was 4 years old and continuing until she was 11, a Cliffside Park girl told investigators, she was sexually assaulted by a man who threatened to “hurt her if she told her mother,” an indictment returned by a grand jury in Hackensack alleges. Luan L. Silva, a 23-year-old Brazilian national works who worked at a high-end auto detailing shop, was arrested last June by detectives from the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office and borough police. They’d been notified by the state Division of Child Protection and Permanency (DCPP), who were alerted by school authoritie…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Monsey, NY
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Brooklyn man admits scheme with Rockland rabbi to extort Jewish man into divorce Brooklyn man admits scheme with Rockland rabbi to extort Jewish man into divorce Brooklyn man admits scheme with Rockland rabbi to extort Jewish man into divorce
Brooklyn man admits scheme with Rockland rabbi to extort Jewish man into divorce YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A personal trainer from Brooklyn today became the first defendant to plead guilty in an FBI sting that charged eight men and two rabbis — one from Rockland County — in a scheme to kidnap and torture a Jewish man into granting his wife a religious divorce. A federal judge allowed 31-year-old David Hellman to remain free on $500,000 bond, with electronic monitoring, after he pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Trenton today to “traveling in interstate commerce to commit extortion.” Hellman said he and seven co-conspirators went to a warehouse in Edison with …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
South Hackensack officer finds pot in iPhone box, crack in car after stop South Hackensack officer finds pot in iPhone box, crack in car after stop South Hackensack officer finds pot in iPhone box, crack in car after stop
South Hackensack officer finds pot in iPhone box, crack in car after stop ​YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A South Hackensack patrol officer arrested three people and seized several bags of pot hidden in an iPhone box, along with more than a half-ounce of crack, following an overnight traffic stop on westbound Route 46. Officer Justin Zanca found the drugs in the back seat after stopping the four-door 2003 Nissan near the Bergen County Technical School around 1 a.m. Feb. 24. One of the occupants, Alyssa Ortiz, 20, of Wood-Ridge, posted $15,000 bail and was released the following afternoon. Another, 21-year-old Caseem Gresham, also of Wood-Ridge was released three day…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Cyber-girl ‘Lexi,’ 6, used in child-sex investigations of others besides former deejay Dave Herman Cyber-girl ‘Lexi,’ 6, used in child-sex investigations of others besides former deejay Dave Herman Cyber-girl ‘Lexi,’ 6, used in child-sex investigations of others besides former deejay Dave Herman
Cyber-girl ‘Lexi,’ 6, used in child-sex investigations of others besides former deejay Dave Herman ONLY ON CVP: An imaginary 6-year-old girl named “Lexi” has been involved in more child sex cases than the one against former radio deejay Dave Herman: Another New York State man also thought he was meeting the same youngster for sex — although in a far less exotic location, authorities say. “Lexi” was a cyber-creation whom the 78-year-old Herman is accused of arranging to meet when authorities they took him into custody last fall at the St. Croix Airport, where sources told CLIFFVIEW PILOT he was waiting with a stuffed animal. Authorities said Herman, a Rockland County resident who has a …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgewood, NJ
Breaking News
Bergen police warn: Sports club car burglaries are up again Bergen police warn: Sports club car burglaries are up again Bergen police warn: Sports club car burglaries are up again
Bergen police warn: Sports club car burglaries are up again PUBLIC SAFETY: People who leave purses, electronics and other valuables in the open in their cars while working out have increasingly become targets for smash-and-grab thieves, local police are warning. The car burglars have been trolling health and fitness clubs, smashing windows and taking whatever is in view, they said. The Wyckoff YMCA was recently the site of two window-smashing burglaries. “In both instances women’s purses that had been left on the seat inside of the car were stolen,” Wyckoff Police Chief Benjamin Fox said this morning. Ridgewood police have reported similar ins…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Christie orders flags flown at half-staff for Wallington Fire Capt. Greg Barnas Christie orders flags flown at half-staff for Wallington Fire Capt. Greg Barnas Christie orders flags flown at half-staff for Wallington Fire Capt. Greg Barnas
Christie orders flags flown at half-staff for Wallington Fire Capt. Greg Barnas TRIBUTE: Gov. Christie this afternoon issued a proclamation directing that flags at the State House building be flown at half-staff tomorrow through next Wednesday in honor of fallen fire Capt. Gregory Barnas. The wake for Barnas, 57, who died fighting an overnight restaurant fire in Wallington last Friday, is set for tomorrow from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. at Warner-Wozniak Funeral home on Midland Avenue. CLICK HERE for proclamation Thousands of firefighters, emergency workers and citizens are expected for a memorial procession that will pass through Wallington on Friday for the funeral. …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Federal marshal chased fugitive through Route 3 traffic in East Rutherford, indictment says Federal marshal chased fugitive through Route 3 traffic in East Rutherford, indictment says Federal marshal chased fugitive through Route 3 traffic in East Rutherford, indictment says
Federal marshal chased fugitive through Route 3 traffic in East Rutherford, indictment says ONLY ON CVP: A fugitive ex-con who authorities said was carrying two handguns and more than a quarter-pound of cocaine when he was tracked down at an East Rutherford motel led a U.S. marshal on a chase through Route 3 traffic before being caught, an indictment returned in Hackensack alleges. Marcus Carter, 35, of Staten Island had taken a room at the Homestead Village/Extended Stay when he was found last Aug. 13. With help from East Rutherford police, members of the New York/New Jersey Fugitive Task Force closed in, then chased the fleeing fugitive before a dash through traffic ended in h…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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South Hackensack police: Human trafficking charges, high bail for man who pimped girl, 16, online South Hackensack police: Human trafficking charges, high bail for man who pimped girl, 16, online South Hackensack police: Human trafficking charges, high bail for man who pimped girl, 16, online
South Hackensack police: Human trafficking charges, high bail for man who pimped girl, 16, online EXCLUSIVE: A 16-year-old Jersey City’s girl’s pimp brought her to a Route 46 motel for an online “date” — and was promptly arrested by undercover South Hackensack police officers, authorities said. Michael Tucker, 46, of Bloomfield (mugshot, above) was being held on $200,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail, charged with human trafficking, promoting prostitution and child endangerment. The human trafficking charge has grown in use among state authorities and county prosecutors as awareness of the crime has spread. South Hackensack police, who are responsible for part of the seedy Route 46…

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