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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Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Breaking News
Former deejay Dave Herman indicted on charges of bringing girl, 7, to St. Croix for sexual abuse Former deejay Dave Herman indicted on charges of bringing girl, 7, to St. Croix for sexual abuse Former deejay Dave Herman indicted on charges of bringing girl, 7, to St. Croix for sexual abuse
Former deejay Dave Herman indicted on charges of bringing girl, 7, to St. Croix for sexual abuse YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Former WNEW-FM DJ Dave Herman was indicted by a federal grand jury in Newark today on charges of planning to bring a 7-year-old Bergen County girl who turned out to be a creation of cyber-crime detectives to St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands to sexually abuse her. As CLIFFVIEW PILOT exclusively reported at the time, Herman was holding a stuffed animal when federal agents and investigators from the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office took him into custody at the St. Croix airport on Oct. 25 as he waited for what Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said he thought would be a…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Federal grand jury indicts alleged mastermind in bank ATM skimming scheme in Englewood, elsewhere Federal grand jury indicts alleged mastermind in bank ATM skimming scheme in Englewood, elsewhere Federal grand jury indicts alleged mastermind in bank ATM skimming scheme in Englewood, elsewhere
Federal grand jury indicts alleged mastermind in bank ATM skimming scheme in Englewood, elsewhere YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Romanian extradited from Sweden week ago was indicted by a federal grand jury in Newark on charges that he orchestrated an ATM skimming scheme that cost banks $5 million in Englewood, Essex and Passaic counties, and New York, Connecticut and Florida. Marius Vintila, 31 – also known as “Dan Girneata” – fled the country last July, as federal agents were rounding up accused members of his crew, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman said. He was caught in Sweden on Sept. 24 and extradited to the U.S. earlier this month. A six-count indictment, returned in U.S. District Court…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Monsey, NY
Breaking News
Wrong-way Newark Airport driver had loaded gun, Port Authority police say Wrong-way Newark Airport driver had loaded gun, Port Authority police say Wrong-way Newark Airport driver had loaded gun, Port Authority police say
Wrong-way Newark Airport driver had loaded gun, Port Authority police say YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A driver stopped for backing down an on-ramp at Newark Airport had a loaded handgun on his console when police stopped him, authorities said this morning. An officer on patrol at Terminal A yesterday afternoon first spotted Ernesto Green, 21, of Newark not wearing a seatbelt and blocking traffic with his four-door tan Nissan, the authority’s Joseph Pentangelo told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. Green then backed the car down the on-ramp and headed to another level, he said. The officer stopped the vehicle and quickly discovered that Green had two outstanding warrants from Newa…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Rutherford, NJ
Breaking News
Rutherford woman arrested for grabbing officer’s gun during domestic dispute Rutherford woman arrested for grabbing officer’s gun during domestic dispute Rutherford woman arrested for grabbing officer’s gun during domestic dispute
Rutherford woman arrested for grabbing officer’s gun during domestic dispute ONLY ON CVP: A Rutherford woman tried grabbing a police officer’s gun and had to be wrestled to the floor during a domestic dispute, authorities said today. There was yelling and screaming inside when Officers Scott Ahearn and Joseph Espinoza knocked on the door of the Washington Avenue home while responding Wednesday to a call of a dispute, Capt. Patrick Feliciano told CLIFFVIEW PILOT this afternoon. The male tenant told them he and his girlfriend, Claudia Delgado, were having a fight, Feliciano said. They, in turn, asked Delgado whether she was OK, as state domestic violence laws requ…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
River Vale police ‘Project Medicine Drop’ increases in popularity River Vale police ‘Project Medicine Drop’ increases in popularity River Vale police ‘Project Medicine Drop’ increases in popularity
River Vale police ‘Project Medicine Drop’ increases in popularity PUBLIC SAFETY: More than 300 pounds of unused and expired medications have been collected by River Vale police as part of the increasingly popular “Project Medicine Drop” program, designed to allow their safe disposal. River Vale, Leonia and Paramus have the only police departments in Bergen County that operate the state-sponsored program, no questions asked, 24 hours a day. They provide lockable, metal receptacles that look like mailboxes and are available for anyone to discretely dispose of medications. This helps keep prescription drugs from falling into the hands of those who might ma…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
Breaking News
PIP PD: Nanuet Driver Had Heroin Stashed In Underwear PIP PD: Nanuet Driver Had Heroin Stashed In Underwear PIP PD: Nanuet Driver Had Heroin Stashed In Underwear
PIP PD: Nanuet Driver Had Heroin Stashed In Underwear YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Nanuet driver who was stopped by Palisades Interstate Parkway police for rolling through a stop sign at a parkway rest stop had several bags of heroin in his underwear, authorities said. Palisades Interstate Parkway police this morning also confirmed that an upstate New York man was extradited to New Jersey over the weekend to face charges of having five ounces of cocaine in his car. Muhammed Wesley refused to consent of a search of the vehicle after PIP police stopped him on the parkway on Nov. 11. He was released while they held onto the car and obtained a sear…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Harrington Park man caught in River Vale faces five years for Jersey City hit-and-run death Harrington Park man caught in River Vale faces five years for Jersey City hit-and-run death Harrington Park man caught in River Vale faces five years for Jersey City hit-and-run death
Harrington Park man caught in River Vale faces five years for Jersey City hit-and-run death UPDATE: A Harrington Park man agreed to a five-year prison sentence Friday for the hit-and-run death of a New York City man in Jersey City four years ago. John Dineen, 26, admitted in Superior Court in Jersey City that he sped off after striking Germaine Forrester of the Springfield Gardens section of Queens with his 2009 Toyota Land Cruiser as he crossed the four-lane highway that leads to the Pulaski Skyway around 12:45 a.m. on July 15, 2010. River Vale Sgt. Chris Bulger stopped the speeding SUV about a half-hour later, spotted the freshly-smashed headlight and asked Dineen where he’d c…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
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Englewood domestic violence: One woman hit with shovel by boyfriend, 74, other beaten ‘MMA style’ Englewood domestic violence: One woman hit with shovel by boyfriend, 74, other beaten ‘MMA style’ Englewood domestic violence: One woman hit with shovel by boyfriend, 74, other beaten ‘MMA style’
Englewood domestic violence: One woman hit with shovel by boyfriend, 74, other beaten ‘MMA style’ YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A trio of domestic violence incidents in Englewood this weekend led to the arrests of a 74-year-old man who police said hit his 49-year-old girlfriend with a snow shovel before cutting himself with a knife and claiming she did it, and another man accused of beating his girlfriend “MMA (mixed martial arts) style.” A manhunt also was under way for a father who police said knocked down his Englewood girlfriend and threatened her with a knife as she held their child during an argument over some photos on their cellphones, Detective Capt. Tim Torell told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
Breaking News
Wyckoff police: Mahwah DWI hit-and-run driver left bumper behind Wyckoff police: Mahwah DWI hit-and-run driver left bumper behind Wyckoff police: Mahwah DWI hit-and-run driver left bumper behind
Wyckoff police: Mahwah DWI hit-and-run driver left bumper behind YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Mahwah woman who Wyckoff police said was drunk when she left part of her bumper at a crash scene was arrested soon after. Lisa B. Grossman, a 42-year-old clothing store employee, was charged with DWI and leaving the scene of an accident after Patrolman William Plisich pulled her over Monday afternoon at the corner of Franklin Avenue and Godwin Avenue for driving erratically, Wyckoff Police Chief Benjamin Fox said. While that was happening, several other motorists stopped and told the officer that Grossman was involved in a crash at Franklin Avenue and Main Street…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgewood, NJ
Breaking News
Tail end of big storm messes with traffic Tail end of big storm messes with traffic Tail end of big storm messes with traffic
Tail end of big storm messes with traffic BUMPER CARS: Hours of crashes, fender benders and spin-outs from one end of Bergen County to the other came courtesy of the wet, icy tail end of the weekend storm, which struck late yesterday afternoon and lasted just long enough to mess with people’s evening plans. One person was taken The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood just before 9 o’clock last night when a Ford SUV careened off Route 17 and into a snowbank. Another collision involved two vehicles a few hours earlier at the intersection of South Maple Avenue and Dayton Street in Ridgewood that sent both vehicles careening into snowbanks.…

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