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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Rutherford, NJ
Breaking News
Super Bowl warmup: Fighter jets over Meadowlands area rescheduled Super Bowl warmup: Fighter jets over Meadowlands area rescheduled Super Bowl warmup: Fighter jets over Meadowlands area rescheduled
Super Bowl warmup: Fighter jets over Meadowlands area rescheduled SHOUT OUT: A pre-Super Bowl exercise in the skies over East Rutherford and the surrounding area was postponed from overnight this morning to before dawn tomorrow. North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) said it will conduct an “air defense exercise” that begins around 4:30 a.m. Thursday and is expected to last about an hour. And although they’re expected to be thousands of feet high enough to not be spotted, you’ll definitely hear them. “The drill is an air-defense exercise to practice procedures for responding to airspace violations during [S]uper [B]owl 48 at Metlife Stadium,” …

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Pascack Valley, NJ
Breaking News
Park Ridge police car crash follows Montvale road rage, officer OK Park Ridge police car crash follows Montvale road rage, officer OK Park Ridge police car crash follows Montvale road rage, officer OK
Park Ridge police car crash follows Montvale road rage, officer OK YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A road-rage incident in Montvale led to a crash involving a Park Ridge police officer yesterday. The officer wasn’t seriously injured, but the police car’s front end was smashed after it struck a tree. The rush was prompted by an initial report by a driver involved in a road-rage incident that he thought he’d seen another motorist with a gun, Montvale Police Chief Jeremy Abrams told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. (NOTE: The original story said that an attempted holdup at a nearby 7-Eleven precipitated the crash. That report was wrong.) As Abrams explained, two motorists from N…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgewood, NJ
Breaking News
Driver OK in SUV crash outside Ridgewood elementary school Driver OK in SUV crash outside Ridgewood elementary school Driver OK in SUV crash outside Ridgewood elementary school
Driver OK in SUV crash outside Ridgewood elementary school YOU SAW IT HERE FIRST: An SUV crashed into a chain link fence outside a Ridgewood elementary school after hours late this afternoon. The driver was upset but not injured after her Honda CRV barreled into the 6-foot fence at the Somerville Elementary School’s athletic field on South Pleasant Avenue. It is believed she lost control of the vehicle after clearing a speed hump and hitting a patch of ice. There were no pedestrians in the area at the time. The vehicle was removed by a flatbed tow truck. Police were investigating. STORY / PHOTOS: Boyd A. Loving  

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Ex-Hackensack coin dealer with Bulgarian mob ties admits cheating IRS Ex-Hackensack coin dealer with Bulgarian mob ties admits cheating IRS Ex-Hackensack coin dealer with Bulgarian mob ties admits cheating IRS
Ex-Hackensack coin dealer with Bulgarian mob ties admits cheating IRS YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A former Hackensack ancient coin dealer with reputed ties to a Bulgarian crew that committed a major coin heist several years ago today admitted filing bogus income tax returns to the I.R.S. Gantcho Zagorski, 60, pleaded guilty to a single count of aiding and assisting in the filing of a false tax return. A federal grand jury in Newark indicted Zagorski last April on charges of submitting bogus returns for calendar years 2006, 2007 and 2008. The indictment didn’t refer to Zagorski’s suspected involvement in fencing a vast haul of coins stolen from the Veliko Turn…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
BCPD seizes 2 guns, arrests 3 in Palisades Park traffic stop BCPD seizes 2 guns, arrests 3 in Palisades Park traffic stop BCPD seizes 2 guns, arrests 3 in Palisades Park traffic stop
Bcpd seizes 2 guns, arrests 3 in Palisades Park traffic stop YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Bergen County Police officer found two illegal handguns, along with more than $6,000 in cash, in a car he pulled over for making unsafe lane charges in Palisades Park, authorities said today. Three people were arrested, two of them from Jersey City. Bergen County Police Department(PHOTO: Boyd A. Loving) It brought the total to four the total number of firearms recovered by the Bergen County Police Department during traffic stops in just over a month. BCPD Officer Fred Rivera stopped the red Honda Civic on westbound Route 46 Monday night, Capt. James Mullin to…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Surprises open trial in Englewood murder of rapper Kampane Surprises open trial in Englewood murder of rapper Kampane Surprises open trial in Englewood murder of rapper Kampane
Surprises open trial in Englewood murder of rapper Kampane YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: The key witness for prosecutors in the trial of a man charged with killing rapper Kampane, setting his body on fire in an empty Englewood house and then leaving the corpse in an SUV parked on a Paramus cul-de-sac will be the defendant’s own brother. The revelation was one of two last-minute surprises revealed during openings in Hackensack earlier today in the trial of Randy Manning for the murder of Rhian “Kampane” Stoute. The other is that Manning’s girlfriend — originally charged as an accomplice in the case — won’t be tried. She’s entered pre-trial intervention.…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
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Judge tosses lawsuit alleging Englewood Cliffs police ignored ‘sex slave’ claim Judge tosses lawsuit alleging Englewood Cliffs police ignored ‘sex slave’ claim Judge tosses lawsuit alleging Englewood Cliffs police ignored ‘sex slave’ claim
Judge tosses lawsuit alleging Englewood Cliffs police ignored ‘sex slave’ claim (via NJ.com) ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS — A federal judge on Monday dismissed a lawsuit filed by a New York woman who accused Englewood Cliffs police of ignoring her claim that she was held as a sex slave by the late husband of a borough woman who accused her in an extortion…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Judge offers James Bond Gang burglar one last shot at plea deal Judge offers James Bond Gang burglar one last shot at plea deal Judge offers James Bond Gang burglar one last shot at plea deal
Judge offers James Bond Gang burglar one last shot at plea deal EXCLUSIVE: Calling him “a complete waste of the court’s time,” a Bergen County prosecutor moved yesterday to cut off plea negotiations with a member of the notorious James Bond Gang of burglars and move straight to trial. A judge elected to give the defendant one more crack at a deal, however. Marc Rainey of Englewood “just wants to stay in state prison,” Assistant Bergen County Prosecutor Nicholas Ostuni told Presiding Superior Court Judge Liliana DeAvila-Silebi in Hackensack. Rainey, 26, who is currently serving a state prison sentence for a Bond gang theft of a safe from Connecticut,…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Highlands, NJ
Breaking News
Three charged, 3 critical in brawl outside South Hackensack strip club Three charged, 3 critical in brawl outside South Hackensack strip club Three charged, 3 critical in brawl outside South Hackensack strip club
Three charged, 3 critical in brawl outside South Hackensack strip club YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Three men have been charged in connection with an overnight brawl that critically injured three people this morning outside a South Hackensack strip club. ANOTHER CVP SCOOP: A man who was stabbed and another who was hit in the head with a hammer during a South Hackensack strip-club melee have been charged in connection with the brawl, CLIFFVIEW PILOT has learned. READ MORE …. Five ambulances were called to the Twins Plus Lounge for the victims, four of whom were taken to Hackensack University Medical Center and one who was taken to St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medic…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Nanny in TV reporter Charles Leaf child sex assault trial begins testimony Nanny in TV reporter Charles Leaf child sex assault trial begins testimony Nanny in TV reporter Charles Leaf child sex assault trial begins testimony
Nanny in TV reporter Charles Leaf child sex assault trial begins testimony EXCLUSIVE: The nanny in the child sex assault trial of former FOX TV reporter Charles Leaf testified today that the alleged victim told her that he touched her “there” — after previously insisting two or three times that he didn’t. The two had just used the bathroom in October 2010, Weronika Karwowska told jurors, when she privately questioned the youngster — then 4 years old — “if anyone ever touched her there.” “Yes. [Leaf] did,” Karwowska said the girl told her. Asked what the child was doing as she spoke, Karwowska told Assistant Bergen County Prosecutor Kenneth Ralph: “She was look…

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