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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Sex offender faces 4 years after admitting he touched mentally disabled River Edge teen Sex offender faces 4 years after admitting he touched mentally disabled River Edge teen Sex offender faces 4 years after admitting he touched mentally disabled River Edge teen
Sex offender faces 4 years after admitting he touched mentally disabled River Edge teen EXCLUSIVE: A former home health aide faces four years in prison after pleading guilty to child endangerment today for sexually touching his River Edge patient’s 15-year-old mentally disabled granddaughter and having her touch him. Grady Brown of Paterson, who worked in the elderly man’s home for a year, told Superior Court Judge Edward A. Jerejian in Hackensack that he has a criminal sexual history dating back to when he was 13. He said he also has a fiancée, a 10-month old daughter and a steady job. “If you’re determined to be a repetitive and compulsive sex offender, you will have to …

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Bergenfield, NJ
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Port Authority police arrest man who walked on PATH tracks during morning rush Port Authority police arrest man who walked on PATH tracks during morning rush Port Authority police arrest man who walked on PATH tracks during morning rush
Port Authority police arrest man who walked on PATH tracks during morning rush BEYOND BERGEN: Port Authority police arrested a Manhattan man who they said walked onto the PATH tracks, disrupting service, during today’s morning rush. Service was interrupted for about 15 minutes after 34-year-old Brendan Duddy walked onto the tracks near the 14th Street station off Sixth Avenue, the authority’s Joseph Pentangelo said. Duddy was charged with criminal trespassing and released on a summons after being taken into custody by Port Authority Officer Atiba Joseph Cumberbatch, Pentangelo said. He has a Jan. 22 date in Manhattan Criminal Court. MUGSHOT: Courtesy PORT AUTHORIT…

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Hackensack, NJ
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Hackensack police charge trio with smoking pot, selling heroin, outside bowling alley Hackensack police charge trio with smoking pot, selling heroin, outside bowling alley Hackensack police charge trio with smoking pot, selling heroin, outside bowling alley
Hackensack police charge trio with smoking pot, selling heroin, outside bowling alley YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Paterson trio were being held on $360,000 bail each in the Bergen County Jail after Hackensack police said they found two of them openly smoking pot in their car while carrying 680 packets of heroin outside a bowling alley. Hackensack police got a call of people smoking marijuana in the Bowler City parking lot, next to Foschini Park, just after midnight yesterday, Detective Capt. Thomas Salcedo told CLIFFVIEW PILOT this morning. Responding officers spotted plastic bags outside the passenger-side door of a 2005 Dodge minivan, the captain said. Inside, he said, 1…

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Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Mahwah police seek suspects in Stag Hill party stabbing, assaults Mahwah police seek suspects in Stag Hill party stabbing, assaults Mahwah police seek suspects in Stag Hill party stabbing, assaults
Mahwah police seek suspects in Stag Hill party stabbing, assaults YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Mahwah police were searching for those involved in stabbing a man and beating a woman during a brawl at a Stag Hill house party before dawn this morning. Police were called around 4 a.m. by a staffer at HackensackUMC in Westwood. A Harrington Park woman in her 20s was brought in by her boyfriend after she was punched, knocked to the ground and kicked several times at a party that drew 40-50 people to the area known as the Goat Farm. “During an interview with  her boyfriend Mahwah investigators learned that another individual might have been stabbed during the [br…

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Hackensack, NJ
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Police funeral for Ridgewood honorary chief Michael Feeney, 10 Police funeral for Ridgewood honorary chief Michael Feeney, 10 Police funeral for Ridgewood honorary chief Michael Feeney, 10
Police funeral for Ridgewood honorary chief Michael Feeney, 10 TRIBUTE: Michael Feeney, a popular Ridgewood Police “Chief for the Day” who became an honorary chief for life, lost his battle with cancer Friday. He was 10 years old. Mike proudly displays his Honorary Chief’s shield (CLIFFVIEW PILOT photo) A full police funeral is scheduled for Tuesday morning in Ridgewood. School district officials have also made arrangements for attendance by students and staff at the wake and funeral. Ridgewood Police Chief John Ward, in conjunction with Schools Superintendent Dr. Daniel Fishbein,  told CLIFFVIEW PILOT today that the village’s first-ever Communi…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paramus, NJ
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Woman pulls stun gun in Walmart fight over shopping cart Woman pulls stun gun in Walmart fight over shopping cart Woman pulls stun gun in Walmart fight over shopping cart
Woman pulls stun gun in Walmart fight over shopping cart BEYOND BERGEN (CVP 1ST): A woman fighting another over a shopping cart in the parking lot of a Union County Walmart pulled a stun gun from her purse — and was quickly arrested, police said today. The 42-year-old Staten Island victim told responding officers that Latosha Mathis, 34, of Elizabeth pulled the TW-11 stun gun on her in the Linden parking lot and “activated it in a threatening manner” during a dispute over a cart Thursday night. Mathis was released on a summonses for a Dec. 6 court hearing on an illegal weapons charge, Police Capt. James Sarnicki said this afternoon. Police se…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
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Robbers broke victim’s ribs in Edgewater luxury high-rise home invasion, prosecutor says Robbers broke victim’s ribs in Edgewater luxury high-rise home invasion, prosecutor says Robbers broke victim’s ribs in Edgewater luxury high-rise home invasion, prosecutor says
Robbers broke victim’s ribs in Edgewater luxury high-rise home invasion, prosecutor says YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: The victim of a luxury high-rise home invasion in Edgewater was pulled from his bed by four gunmen who broke his ribs while beating him, then tied him up and spent three hours stealing $2 million in cash, gold and jewelry, Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said this afternoon, in formally announcing the arrests of two neighbors. Detectives from Molinelli’s Special Investigations Unit arrested Ramona Mercado Vasquez, a 26-year-old Dominican citizen, and Adonis Sepulveda, 30, a Dominican U.S. citizen, on Wednesday, as CLIFFVIEW PILOT was the first to report. …

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Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
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$100,000 bail in Cliffside Park beating that put victim in ICU $100,000 bail in Cliffside Park beating that put victim in ICU $100,000 bail in Cliffside Park beating that put victim in ICU
$100,000 bail in Cliffside Park beating that put victim in ICU EXCLUSIVE: A fight outside a Cliffside Park bar put one man in intensive care and another in the Bergen County Jail on $100,000 bail. The victim sustained severe head injuries in the beating outside Whiskey Pete’s on Anderson Avenue minutes before midnight Thursday, borough police said this morning. Christian Ciccolella, 24, was being held in the Bergen County Jail on charges of aggravated assault and endangering an incapacitated victim. Ciccolella has an East Bergen-area rap sheet that includes drug, vandalism and criminal mischief charges, as well as probation violations, records show…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
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Garfield Walmart shopper spits on other woman’s kid, man pepper-sprayed Garfield Walmart shopper spits on other woman’s kid, man pepper-sprayed Garfield Walmart shopper spits on other woman’s kid, man pepper-sprayed
Garfield Walmart shopper spits on other woman’s kid, man pepper-sprayed CVP’s ONLY BLACK FRIDAY STORY: A shopper spit on another woman’s child during an argument in the infant clothing section of the Walmart Supercenter in Garfield last night, igniting a chain of events that ended with police pepper-spraying a man shouting curses in the electronics department, authorities said. Garfield police hired to provide Black Friday security took 29-year-old Cyrstal Hickman into custody on charges of spitting at another woman and hitting the youngster, Detective Capt. Darren Sucorowski said this morning. As they were doing that, a man later identified as Richard Ramos,…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Teaneck, NJ
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Teaneck police: Man severely beaten, robbed after woman offers sex for cash Teaneck police: Man severely beaten, robbed after woman offers sex for cash Teaneck police: Man severely beaten, robbed after woman offers sex for cash
Teaneck police: Man severely beaten, robbed after woman offers sex for cash EXCLUSIVE: A 56-year-old Englewood man had his jaw broken, his arm dislocated and teeth loosened during a severe beating after he was lured behind a Teaneck apartment building by a 21-year-old woman who solicited him for sex, borough police told CLIFFVIEW PILOT this morning. Latice Wilson, 21, was arrested after she locked herself out — leaving her 2-year-old boy alone in her apartment — and began ringing doorbells in the building as the victim was coming to, Detective Ed Kazmierczak said. The man told investigators he’d arranged to meet Wilson for sex, gave her $60 and was led behind th…

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