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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Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
Breaking News
Bergen sheriff: Man assaulted wife on Route 46, had hundreds of illegal meds Bergen sheriff: Man assaulted wife on Route 46, had hundreds of illegal meds Bergen sheriff: Man assaulted wife on Route 46, had hundreds of illegal meds
Bergen sheriff: Man assaulted wife on Route 46, had hundreds of illegal meds YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A man having a fight with his wife on Route 46 in Little Ferry flagged down a passing Bergen County Sheriff’s officer before dawn today — and was arrested on charges of assault and having hundreds of pills without prescriptions. BCSO Officer Matthew DeBonis said he was stopped on the highway’s westbound side around 3 a.m. by Thomas Burgos. Burgos, 46, asked the officer if he “could assist him in removing his wife from his vehicle,” the Sheriff’s Office’s Dave Martinez told CLIFFVIEW PILOT this afternoon. They’d been arguing “all day” and she refused to get out of…

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Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Breaking News
Fair Lawn firefighters clear dangerous ice, snow from school Fair Lawn firefighters clear dangerous ice, snow from school Fair Lawn firefighters clear dangerous ice, snow from school
Fair Lawn firefighters clear dangerous ice, snow from school PUBLIC SAFETY: Firefighters from Fair Lawn Fire Company #1 used their tower ladder truck to clear a dangerous buildup of ice and snow from a local school this morning. Just below the buildup was the main entrance/exit door of the Radburn School. STORY / PHOTOS: Boyd A. Loving The ice and snow were cleared after firefighters knocked it loose with pike poles.  

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Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Hackensack detectives smash fake ID operation that targeted Target Hackensack detectives smash fake ID operation that targeted Target Hackensack detectives smash fake ID operation that targeted Target
Hackensack detectives smash fake ID operation that targeted Target YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Two Hackensack police detectives played a clever hunch and grabbed a pair of accused ID thieves who they said were tacking hundreds — and possibly thousands — of dollars in credit onto more than three dozen stolen gift cards. City police got a call of suspicious card activity last night at the Target store off Main Street and Hackensack Avenue, Detective Capt. Thomas Salcedo told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. The two suspects had already left, but a security officer got a partial license plate, he said. Playing a hunch, Detective Sgt. Michael Antista and Detective Ryan Weber we…

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Paterson, NJ
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Elmwood Park police make arrest in gas station holdup Elmwood Park police make arrest in gas station holdup Elmwood Park police make arrest in gas station holdup
Elmwood Park police make arrest in gas station holdup UPDATE: A sharp-eyed Route 46 gas station attendant who’d just been robbed got a license plate number of the getaway car and Elmwood Park police arrested an ex-con from Clifton soon after. Nidal Nasser, 35, was arrested at his home, where a pellet gun also was seized, Elmwood Park Police Capt. Michael Foligno said. Foligno said Nasser pointed the gun at the attendant just before 1 a.m. yesterday and fled with $160 in a Nissan Maximum owned by his mother. Nasser — whose criminal history includes burglaries, weapons charges and an assault on a police officer — was being held on $50,000 in…

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Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Fund established for Woodland Park family burned from home Fund established for Woodland Park family burned from home Fund established for Woodland Park family burned from home
Fund established for Woodland Park family burned from home HOW YOU CAN HELP: The response to a clothing drive for a Woodland Park family burned from their home has been so overwhelming that organizers have now turned their attention to still-much-needed donations. PHOTO: Courtesy Eric A. Cinotti The fire at the home of Brian Wiltshire, Leslie Jacobs Piccolo and their two teenaged daughters broke out just before 3 p.m. Monday afternoon and quickly raced through the structure on Jackson Avenue in Woodland Park. Floors collapsed, forcing firefighters to work from outside. An EMT with AlphaCare Ambulance in Paterson said he was returning from a …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Pascack Valley, NJ
Breaking News
Park Ridge widower in suicide Park Ridge widower in suicide Park Ridge widower in suicide
Park Ridge widower in suicide A law enforcement sources tonight confirmed that an elderly Park Ridge widower killed himself with a gunshot to the head late this afternoon. Local and Bergen County PD police were at the scene of the shooting, reported just after 4:30 p.m. CLIFFVIEW PILOT is withholding  further details.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Judge refuses to dismiss charges, move trial in Bergen synagogue firebombings case Judge refuses to dismiss charges, move trial in Bergen synagogue firebombings case Judge refuses to dismiss charges, move trial in Bergen synagogue firebombings case
Judge refuses to dismiss charges, move trial in Bergen synagogue firebombings case YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A judge in Hackensack today angrily refused to dismiss charges or move the trial out of the county in the Bergen synagogue firebombing case against two men. Defense attorney Brian Neary argued that a venue change was necessary because of charges that his client, Aakash Dala, hatched murder plots against an assistant prosecutor and two judges. The request stirred Superior Court Judge Edward A. Jerejian. “Mr. Dalal doesn’t get to decide who tries this case,” he told Neary. “It would be the crudest form of judge shopping. If Mr. Dalal threatened me next, I would …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
Breaking News
Bomb threat clears Englewood City Hall, area businesses Bomb threat clears Englewood City Hall, area businesses Bomb threat clears Englewood City Hall, area businesses
Bomb threat clears Englewood City Hall, area businesses YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Investigators were looking into the possibility of a disgruntled employee making a bomb threat that cleared Englewood City Hall and a half-dozen or so area businesses this afternoon. “It appears to have been a hoax,” Detective Capt. Tim Torell told CLIFFVIEW PILOT this afternoon. The person who received the threat called police just after 3:30 p.m. The elite Englewood Emergency Services Unit responded and summoned the Bergen County Bomb Squad. City Hall, the targeted business on West Palisade Avenue and several other area businesses were evacuated as a precauti…

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Lyndhurst, NJ
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Ice, snow around hydrants block Garfield firefighting effort Ice, snow around hydrants block Garfield firefighting effort Ice, snow around hydrants block Garfield firefighting effort
Ice, snow around hydrants block Garfield firefighting effort YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A two-family Garfield house appeared a total loss after firefighters had trouble getting at hydrants that were covered in snow and ice. No injuries were immediately reported in the three-alarm blaze, which apparently began in the basement and ripped through the 2½-story structure in the 200 block of Wessington Avenue. Firefighters were quickly pulled from the building once the internal staircase collapsed. At one point, only one hydrant was clear and usable until the area around others could be shoveled. Among those assisting Garfield firefighters were the Wall…

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Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Defendant in Bergenfield drug deal shootings gets bail lowered Defendant in Bergenfield drug deal shootings gets bail lowered Defendant in Bergenfield drug deal shootings gets bail lowered
Defendant in Bergenfield drug deal shootings gets bail lowered EXCLUSIVE: One of four men charged in the shooting of an accused drug dealer and another man during a Bergenfield home invasion convinced a judge today to lower his bail to $500,000 cash from $650,000. Mario Ferreira Jr. of Succasunna, 23, described by prosecutors as the wheelman for the two armed assailants, made a surprise appearance in Hackensack this morning asking Presiding Superior Court Judge Liliana DeAvila-Silebi for the bail cut. Defense attorney James M. Doyle cited Ferreria’s ties to the community and produced a letter from contractor J. Fletcher Creamer indicating his job wou…

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