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
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Odd twists in Charles Leaf child sex assault trial happen outside court Odd twists in Charles Leaf child sex assault trial happen outside court Odd twists in Charles Leaf child sex assault trial happen outside court
Odd twists in Charles Leaf child sex assault trial happen outside court EXCLUSIVE: With the final witnesses set to testify, the child sex assault trial of former FOX 5 investigative reporter Charles Leaf has been marked nearly as much by what’s gone out outside the trial as what’s been revealed inside the Hackensack courtroom. One of the original 16 jurors was hit by a car, two suffered deaths in their immediate families and a fourth was dismissed after telling fellow panelists he’d already made up his mind while complaining about the length of the trial. Yesterday there was a lengthy discussion of continuing with only 11 jurors because yet another member of …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
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Friends, loved ones stunned by Turnpike death of limo company owner from Englewood Cliffs Friends, loved ones stunned by Turnpike death of limo company owner from Englewood Cliffs Friends, loved ones stunned by Turnpike death of limo company owner from Englewood Cliffs
Friends, loved ones stunned by Turnpike death of limo company owner from Englewood Cliffs UPDATE: Tributes have poured in today for a Secaucus limousine company owner from Englewood Cliffs who was killed last night in a crash on the New Jersey Turnpike. Mohammed Aboushaca, 52, owner of Access Limo and Cab Service, was behind the wheel of a Toyota Camry that struck the back of a tractor-trailer in the northbound lanes on the Turnpike’s eastern spur in Secaucus just before 10 p.m., according to New Jersey State Police. “Mighty Mo,” as some called him, was “all about his kids,” one friend said. Others called him “a gentle giant,” “a good man,” “a family man.” “There was serious…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Bergen grand jury: North Arlington man molested girls, 12, 13, showed them porn Bergen grand jury: North Arlington man molested girls, 12, 13, showed them porn Bergen grand jury: North Arlington man molested girls, 12, 13, showed them porn
Bergen grand jury: North Arlington man molested girls, 12, 13, showed them porn EXCLUSIVE: A grand jury in Hackensack has brought an 11-count indictment against a married recycling company worker from North Arlington accused of molesting two girls – one 12 and the other 13 — and masturbating in front of them. Richard G. Grossy, who turned 40 two weeks ago, was arrested at his High Street home by members of Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office Special Victims Unit and North Arlington police last June after one of the girls told her mother, Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said at the time. “Gabe” Grossy has remained held on $250,000 bail in the Bergen County Ja…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
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No objection: Mahwah High School students are Bergen mock trial champs again No objection: Mahwah High School students are Bergen mock trial champs again No objection: Mahwah High School students are Bergen mock trial champs again
No objection: Mahwah High School students are Bergen mock trial champs again SHOUT OUT: A distraught friend testifies that her mission is to “bring justice” to the death of a victim of a vehicular homicide, while a police sergeant who discovered the ghastly crash involving two drunken college students tries to identify who was driving, in a case presented during the 32nd installment of the Vincent J Apruzzese Mock Court at the Bergen County Courthouse. In the end, the victors in the case were the Thunderbirds from Mahwah High School — the group’s fourth county title in six years. Dozens of public and parochial school mock trial teams from Bergen County vied for a …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Highlands, NJ
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New charges confirmed, more announced in brawl outside South Hackensack strip club New charges confirmed, more announced in brawl outside South Hackensack strip club New charges confirmed, more announced in brawl outside South Hackensack strip club
New charges confirmed, more announced in brawl outside South Hackensack strip club YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Some of the damage that a South Hackensack bar fight wrought was revealed tonight by Bergen County Prosecutor John Molinelli in confirming an exclusive CLIFFVIEW PILOT report on Saturday about additional charges brought in a Jan. 28 brawl outside Twins Plus Lounge in South Hackensack. The bar owners and several employees also were cited by South Hackensack Police with 14 violations for various alleged infractions of borough ordinances and ABC laws, the prosecutor revealed. Among those against whom aggravated assault charges were brought in the past week are a man w…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Lyndhurst, NJ
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Lyndhurst woman takes 11th-hour plea in $30M mortgage scheme Lyndhurst woman takes 11th-hour plea in $30M mortgage scheme Lyndhurst woman takes 11th-hour plea in $30M mortgage scheme
Lyndhurst woman takes 11th-hour plea in $30M mortgage scheme YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Jury selection in her trial was beginning when a Lyndhurst woman pleaded guilty in federal court in Newark today to a long-running, large-scale mortgage fraud scheme that caused an estimated $30 million in losses. Klary Arcentales, 45, pleaded guilty to a single count of conspiracy to commit bank fraud and four counts of bank fraud, avoiding trial. Federal prosecutors were prepared to show that, between 2007 and 2012, Arcentales engaged in a mortgage fraud conspiracy through a company called Premier Mortgage Services (Premier), where she worked as a loan officer, U…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Valley, NJ
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Snow shoveling burglars have now struck in Cresskill, Haworth, Park Ridge Snow shoveling burglars have now struck in Cresskill, Haworth, Park Ridge Snow shoveling burglars have now struck in Cresskill, Haworth, Park Ridge
Snow shoveling burglars have now struck in Cresskill, Haworth, Park Ridge EXCLUSIVE: A pair of snow shoveling burglars who struck in Cresskill yesterday morning were connected today to an attempted break-in nearby in Haworth and a successful burglary in Park Ridge. Before taking a gun and other items during a pair of kick-in burglaries in Cresskill, the duo tried to bust into a Prospect Avenue residence in Haworth, police said. “Fortunately for the homeowner, the deadbolt held well,” Haworth Lt. Thomas Ryan told CLIFFVIEW PILOT this afternoon. Several neighbors reported seeing two white males in their late teens or early 20s running south on Pleasant Street a…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
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Robber flees after stabbing man in Hoboken basement Robber flees after stabbing man in Hoboken basement Robber flees after stabbing man in Hoboken basement
Robber flees after stabbing man in Hoboken basement YOU SAW IT HERE FIRST: A search was under way for a robber who stabbed his victim in the basement of a Hoboken brownstone this afternoon. The robber used the Park Avenue victim’s knife to stab him in the leg and take several personal effects. STORY / PHOTOS:Boyd A. Loving The victim and his father drove around for nearly 15 minutes looking for the assailant before calling police, a law enforcement source told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. He was then taken to Hoboken University Medical Center.  

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Gone in 60 seconds: Paramus mall thief swiped 15 watches in no time, police say Gone in 60 seconds: Paramus mall thief swiped 15 watches in no time, police say Gone in 60 seconds: Paramus mall thief swiped 15 watches in no time, police say
Gone in 60 seconds: Paramus mall thief swiped 15 watches in no time, police say YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: In less than 60 seconds, a Paterson man snatched watches in a month-long series of thefts that netted $3,410 in merchandise, Paramus police said this afternoon in announcing his arrest. Detective Michael Cebulski and Officer Sal Cosentino arrested 46-year-old Ishmell Sumter as he was leaving his apartment last Friday and charged him in connection with stealing 15 Michael Kors watches during five thefts at area malls, beginning Dec. 19. “Cebulski used video surveillance and witnesses to identify Sumter,” Police Chief Kenneth Ehrenberg said this afternoon. The dete…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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FBI: 25 child prostitutes rescued, 45 pimps arrested in Super Bowl sex trafficking offensive FBI: 25 child prostitutes rescued, 45 pimps arrested in Super Bowl sex trafficking offensive FBI: 25 child prostitutes rescued, 45 pimps arrested in Super Bowl sex trafficking offensive
FBI: 25 child prostitutes rescued, 45 pimps arrested in Super Bowl sex trafficking offensive YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: The FBI this morning said it teamed up with more than 50 law enforcement agencies in four states to recover 25 child prostitutes — some as young as 13, many of them runaways from New York and New Jersey — in an offensive against Super Bowl child-sex trafficking. More than than 45 pimps and their associates were arrested, “some of whom claimed to have traveled to New Jersey from other states specifically for the purpose of prostituting women and children at the Super Bowl,” the bureau said in a news release. *      *      *      *      *      * RELATED: Free onlin…

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