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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Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Female Walmart shoplifter packed loaded handgun, Saddle Brook police say Female Walmart shoplifter packed loaded handgun, Saddle Brook police say Female Walmart shoplifter packed loaded handgun, Saddle Brook police say
Female Walmart shoplifter packed loaded handgun, Saddle Brook police say EXCLUSIVE: A Paterson woman caught shoplifting at the Saddle Brook Walmart was carrying a loaded .45-caliber handgun in her pocketbook, police told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. Police responded to a report of two shoplifters being detained by Walmart security for lifting $75 worth of good from the Route 46 store last night, Saddle Brook Chief Robert Kugler said. Both were brought to headquarters for shoplifting. There, police found 42-year-old Shonda Sullivan carrying the semi-automatic Ruger — with a defaced serial number, Kugler told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. Sullivan was being held on $10,000 bail in t…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgewood, NJ
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Toppled tree tangles with tractor-trailer on quiet Ridgewood street Toppled tree tangles with tractor-trailer on quiet Ridgewood street Toppled tree tangles with tractor-trailer on quiet Ridgewood street
Toppled tree tangles with tractor-trailer on quiet Ridgewood street YOU SAW IT HERE FIRST: A rotted tree fell on a tractor-trailer that apparently banged into it, closing a stretch of Spring Avenue in Ridgewood this afternoon. Crews needed roughly two hours to free the rig and remove the debris in front a home in the 500 block. Spring Avenue was closed between Kenilworth Road and South Pleasant Avenue while they worked. The tractor-trailer wound up on the ordinarily quiet residential street due to a posted detour on nearby East Ridgewood Avenue, where a PSE&G utility pole replacement project was continuing. Ridgewood Shade Tree Department personne…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Lawyer, investigator clash over methods in Charles Leaf child sex trial Lawyer, investigator clash over methods in Charles Leaf child sex trial Lawyer, investigator clash over methods in Charles Leaf child sex trial
Lawyer, investigator clash over methods in Charles Leaf child sex trial EXCLUSIVE: Two full days of scrupulous questioning in the child sex assault trial of former Fox 5 TV reporter Charles Leaf ended yesterday in Hackensack with a defense attorney and chief investigator from the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office continuing to butt heads. During his questioning, Attorney Brian Neary pointed to standard practices that call for interviewing childen of 20 to 25 minutes. The girl in the Leaf case was interviewed for 123 minutes — including a 4-minute period during which the chief investigator, Lt. Cora Taylor, left her alone in the interview room while she locate…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cresskill-Closter, NJ
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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Highlands, NJ
Breaking News
WWII fighter pilot, 91, named Woodcliff Lake Planning Board Chairman Emeritus WWII fighter pilot, 91, named Woodcliff Lake Planning Board Chairman Emeritus WWII fighter pilot, 91, named Woodcliff Lake Planning Board Chairman Emeritus
WWII fighter pilot, 91, named Woodcliff Lake Planning Board Chairman Emeritus TRIBUTE: A World War II fighter pilot about to celebrate his 70th wedding anniversary was named the Woodcliff Lake Planning Board’s first Chairman Emeritus. Ken Glemby, 91, has lived in the borough 50 years and served the planning board for 17. He and his wife, Paula, purchased property on Kenwood Drive in 1963 and built their home while renting on Saddle River Road. They moved in a year later. This August they celebrate their 70th wedding anniversary, said their daughter, Ellen Ferne Glemby. “The running joke in the family is that my mother has been married to my father for 69 years,  …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Violent felon terrorizes Englewood homeowner, caught after foot chase Violent felon terrorizes Englewood homeowner, caught after foot chase Violent felon terrorizes Englewood homeowner, caught after foot chase
Violent felon terrorizes Englewood homeowner, caught after foot chase YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Bronx ex-con with a 20-year violent rap sheet pushed his way in and terrorized an Englewood home female homeowner this afternoon, then fled with cash, jewelry and other valuables before being chased down and caught by city police, authorities said. An accomplice was still being sought tonight. Ibn Jabbar Lee, 35, first broke into a Thornton Road home near the Tenafly and Englewood Cliffs borders around 12:40 p.m., Englewood Detective Capt. Timothy Torell told CLIFFVIEW PILOT tonight. A housekeeper who was home alone said she heard the doorbell ring but didn’t a…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Highlands, NJ
Breaking News
Mahwah baby formula bandits cold-cock supermarket cart collector, flee, crash Mahwah baby formula bandits cold-cock supermarket cart collector, flee, crash Mahwah baby formula bandits cold-cock supermarket cart collector, flee, crash
Mahwah baby formula bandits cold-cock supermarket cart collector, flee, crash YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A shoplifting that turned into a baby formula robbery ended with a supermarket cart collector hospitalized and three Queens men  in custody following a chase that ended off Route 17 in Ho-Ho-Kus tonight. Two of the robbers loaded a shopping cart with $3,000 worth of Enfamil at the A&P on Franklin Turnpike in Mahwah and headed for a car in the parking lot driven by an accomplice just before 7:30 p.m., Mahwah Police Chief James Batelli told CLIFFVIEW PILOT tonight. CLIFFVIEW PILOT broke the story Wednesday night “They steal the Enfamil in bulk and then sell it …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Leonia, Englewood police nab couple in 7-Eleven holdup Leonia, Englewood police nab couple in 7-Eleven holdup Leonia, Englewood police nab couple in 7-Eleven holdup
Leonia, Englewood police nab couple in 7-Eleven holdup YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Leonia police officer this morning grabbed a Staten Island man running from an Englewood 7Eleven holdup “with two fists full of cash,” authorities said tonight. A frightened clerk was pointing at 23-year-old David Debowski as Leonia Police Officer Frank Rocco pulled into the parking lot of the Grand Avenue convenience store around 2 a.m., Englewood Detective Capt. Timothy Torell told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. Rocco stopped Debowski and called for backup officers, who found his 22-year-old girlfriend, Marjorie Alva of Elmwood Park, waiting in a car outside the store, Torel…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
Breaking News
NJ Statehouse flags to fly at half-staff for Cliffside Park Firefighter Cosmo Paris NJ Statehouse flags to fly at half-staff for Cliffside Park Firefighter Cosmo Paris NJ Statehouse flags to fly at half-staff for Cliffside Park Firefighter Cosmo Paris
NJ Statehouse flags to fly at half-staff for Cliffside Park Firefighter Cosmo Paris TRIBUTE: Flags at the New Jersey Statehouse building in Trenton will be flown at half-staff for a week, beginning tomorrow, in honor of Cosmo Paris, a popular Cliffside Park firefighter who died from a heart attack last week after an extended fire watch in the frigid cold. “Firefighter Paris responded to an activated alarm which created a hazard in the building necessitating fire officials to order a stand-by at the location for a fire watch. The fire watch duty extended 16 hours in sub-freezing temperatures,” the U.S. Fire Administration said. To view, click here:COSMO PARIS PROCLAMATION…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Girl, 10, father struck by mini-van at Fair Lawn intersection Girl, 10, father struck by mini-van at Fair Lawn intersection Girl, 10, father struck by mini-van at Fair Lawn intersection
Girl, 10, father struck by mini-van at Fair Lawn intersection YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A 10-year-old girl and her father sustained injuries that police said weren’t considered life-threatening when they were struck by a mini-van at a Fair Lawn intersection tonight. Although witnesses at first said they thought the girl was more seriously hurt in the 5:27 p.m. crash, Police Lt. Joseph Dawicki told CLIFFVIEW PILOT the preliminary indications are that she and her 37-year-old father will survive. Both victims were taken by ambulance to Hackensack University Medical Center following the 5:50 p.m. crash at the intersection of Fair Lawn Avenue and Abbott Ro…

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