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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Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Charles Leaf professes innocence on stand, blasts nanny Charles Leaf professes innocence on stand, blasts nanny Charles Leaf professes innocence on stand, blasts nanny
Charles Leaf professes innocence on stand, blasts nanny YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A passionate Charles Leaf, testifying this morning in his own defense, emphatically denied sexually assaulting a 4-year-old girl — and accused the state’s key witness in the case of being untrustworthy. Leaf, Emmy-winning former Fox 5 investigative reporter, tearfully and vociferously denied a list of charges against him read off by his defense attorney, Brian Neary, in Hackensack, including that he viewed child pornography on the computer at  his Wyckoff home. SPECIAL REPORT: A prosecutor hit former Fox 5 reporter Charles Leaf hard yesterday in his child sex abu…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cresskill-Closter, NJ
Breaking News
Email bomb threat clears Tenafly Middle School Email bomb threat clears Tenafly Middle School Email bomb threat clears Tenafly Middle School
Email bomb threat clears Tenafly Middle School YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Bomb-sniffing dogs searched the Tenafly Middle School late this afternoon after a staff member received an anonymous email threat, police confirmed tonight. “The contents of the email were vague and claimed that multiple bombs were placed inside of the Middle School,” Police Capt. Michael deMoncada said. When police got the call, just before 4 p.m. “there were a small number of students and staff in the building for after-school activities,” deMoncada said. “In response, the Middle School was evacuated and officers from the Tenafly Police and Bergen County Police D…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Judges deny bail reductions in Edgewater luxury high-rise home invasion Judges deny bail reductions in Edgewater luxury high-rise home invasion Judges deny bail reductions in Edgewater luxury high-rise home invasion
Judges deny bail reductions in Edgewater luxury high-rise home invasion YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Judges in different Hackensack courtrooms today both refused to cut the $1 million bails for two of four defendants charged in the home invasion robbery of developer Fred Daibes at his St. Moritz high-rise apartment. Meanwhile, a prosecutor disclosed additional details about the holdup. While one judge was rejecting a bail reduction bid for Jorge Valencia, a 46-year-old Colombian national who authorities said masterminded the scheme, another was doing the same for 26-year-old Ramona Mercado Vasquez, one of the first arrested shortly after the holdup. Both were retu…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
Breaking News
Drugged, unlicensed hit-and-run driver had infant in car, Mahwah police say Drugged, unlicensed hit-and-run driver had infant in car, Mahwah police say Drugged, unlicensed hit-and-run driver had infant in car, Mahwah police say
Drugged, unlicensed hit-and-run driver had infant in car, Mahwah police say YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: An unlicensed, convicted DUI motorist who was drugged when he fled the scene of a crash in Mahwah this morning had his 2½-month-old daughter in the car, authorities said this afternoon. The other driver called police on his cellphone after his car was struck from behind on Franklin Turnpike around 10:15 a.m. by a Jeep that then took off, Police Chief James Batelli said. While following the Jeep, he told police it had stopped on Armour Road near Airmount Road. Michael Delaney (MUGSHOT: Courtesy MAHWAH PD) Officer Thomas Solimano spoke with the Jeep’s driver, 32-…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Highlands, NJ
Breaking News
12 years in fed pen for Palisades Park ringleader in massive Asian ID theft ring 12 years in fed pen for Palisades Park ringleader in massive Asian ID theft ring 12 years in fed pen for Palisades Park ringleader in massive Asian ID theft ring
12 years in fed pen for Palisades Park ringleader in massive Asian ID theft ring SPECIAL REPORT: What began as a murder investigation out of Tenafly culminated in the federal sentencing today of the admitted Palisades Park kingpin of a “crime superstore” to 12 years in federal prison. U.S. District Judge Katharine S. Hayden also ordered Sang-Hyun “Jimmy” Park to pay $4.7 million in restitution to the victimized banks, credit card companies and other lenders — while admitting that was extremely unlikely. Kim, 48, will be deported to South Korea when he is released from prison, under federal law. ”I made wrong choices and this is how far I came,” Park told Hayden thro…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Bergenfield, NJ
Breaking News
Port Authority police rookies, one month out of academy, save woman, 71 Port Authority police rookies, one month out of academy, save woman, 71 Port Authority police rookies, one month out of academy, save woman, 71
Port Authority police rookies, one month out of academy, save woman, 71 SHOUT OUT: Exactly one month out of the police academy, a quartet of Port Authority officers helped bring a 71-year-old woman back to life after she collapsed at LaGuardia Airport yesterday. The woman had no pulse when the officers rushed to her aid just after 2 p.m. yesterday near the United Airlines desk in the lower level of the central terminal, the authority’s Joseph Pentangelo said. Officer Orivelis Torres began CPR while officers Lenny Guzman, William Mudry and Phat Lam got amd applied a defibrillator, Pentangelo said. “After the first application the victim was unresponsive,” he…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
Breaking News
Missing Golden Retriever from Tenafly found, safe and sound Missing Golden Retriever from Tenafly found, safe and sound Missing Golden Retriever from Tenafly found, safe and sound
Missing Golden Retriever from Tenafly found, safe and sound SHOUT OUT: Hudson, a 3½-year-old Golden Retriever from Tenafly who went missing over the weekend, was found tonight behind a dentist’s office in town — and appears none the worse for wear, aside from some scratches and a wicked thirst. “We’ll know better when we take him to the vet tomorrow morning,” Emily Wallace, whose parents own Hudson, told CLIFFVIEW PILOT tonight. Hudson, whose sister died a little over a month ago, was let into the gated backyard of their home, at the intersection of Engle and Elm streets, early Friday night. Soon after, the 87-pound purebred pooch was gone. Hu…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Judge refuses to dismiss elderly abuse charges against Lodi fire marshal Judge refuses to dismiss elderly abuse charges against Lodi fire marshal Judge refuses to dismiss elderly abuse charges against Lodi fire marshal
Judge refuses to dismiss elderly abuse charges against Lodi fire marshal YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A judge in Hackensack today rejected a bid by Lodi Fire Marshal Paul Wanco to have charges of abusing his elderly mother dismissed, setting the stage for either a plea bargain or a trial. “I’m setting a plea cutoff (March 10), and I intend to set the case down for a trial date,” Superior Court Judge Edward A. Jerejian told Wanco, who is accused of deliberately leaving his then-89-year-old mother lying on the floor in her own urine and feces for nearly 15 hours. Defense attorney Frank Cozzarelli wanted Jerejian to dismiss an indictment returned by a grand jury in Ha…

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by Jerry DeMarco
West Milford, NJ
Breaking News
Middlesex pimp, girlfriend admit roles in NJ human trafficking prostitution ring Middlesex pimp, girlfriend admit roles in NJ human trafficking prostitution ring Middlesex pimp, girlfriend admit roles in NJ human trafficking prostitution ring
Middlesex pimp, girlfriend admit roles in NJ human trafficking prostitution ring YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A pimp who with his prostitute girlfriend swiped $500,000 worth of diamonds from a john at Manhattan’s Cosmopolitan Hotel pleaded guilty to human trafficking today — one of the first in New Jersey under the statute. Percival R. Williams — also known as Tayvann Dunston — admitted using violence and threats of violence to enslave women in a high-priced prostitution ring, after pretending to be a music producer while tooling around in high-performance Maseratis and a Porsche, state authorities charged. State prosecutors, in turn, said they would recommend a prison …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Dog and pony snow: A word about forecasts Dog and pony snow: A word about forecasts Dog and pony snow: A word about forecasts
Dog and pony snow: A word about forecasts Stock up the beer and ammo, because there’s something in the air — but beware: No matter what you read elsewhere, no one can tell you just how much snowfall we’ll be getting this week. Not yet, anyway. Jonathan Carr of Facebook’s Severe NJ Weather emphasizes that he’s not a meteorologist but says we could be looking at “a foot plus of snow from DC through NYC” that “looks to start late Wednesday night and last well into Thursday. That includes most of SWNJ, CNJ, and NENJ. “Sharp cutoff for NWNJ,” he added, “but still a significant event.” He revised that around 6 p.m. today, saying the …

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