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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Hackensack construction worker pinned by machine rushed to hospital Hackensack construction worker pinned by machine rushed to hospital Hackensack construction worker pinned by machine rushed to hospital
Hackensack construction worker pinned by machine rushed to hospital YOU SAW IT HERE FIRST: Hackensack firefighters this afternoon helped get a worker whose legs were run over by a construction machine to the hospital after colleagues pulled him out. Engine 2, Ladder 1, Rescue 1, & D/C 4 all responded to 230 Polifly Road for the noon report. “The machine rolled over his lower legs. He was conscious the whole time,” an emergency worker told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. “He has trauma injuries to both legs.” Hackensack University Medical Center ambulance took the injured worker to the hospital. City police were investigating. PHOTO: Courtesy HACKENSACK FD

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Hackensack, NJ
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Westwood Trader Joe’s worker pinned by car, seriously injured, outside store Westwood Trader Joe’s worker pinned by car, seriously injured, outside store Westwood Trader Joe’s worker pinned by car, seriously injured, outside store
Westwood Trader Joe’s worker pinned by car, seriously injured, outside store UPDATE: A Westwood Trader Joe’s employee was seriously injured when an elderly driver’s car lurched forward, slamming her through a supermarket window, just before 3:20 this afternoon. The worker had finished her shift and planned to do some shopping when she came out to get a cart and was struck, sustaining “very serious injuries,” Police Chief Frank Regino told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. She was flown by AirMed One to Hackensack University Medical Center. The driver, a 75-year-old woman from New Milford, had come out of the store moments earlier, the chief said. A worker assisted her in putting p…

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Hackensack, NJ
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FBI: Missing Hackensack woman may have been victim of serial killer FBI: Missing Hackensack woman may have been victim of serial killer FBI: Missing Hackensack woman may have been victim of serial killer
FBI: Missing Hackensack woman may have been victim of serial killer A Hackensack woman who disappeared in 2009 may have been slain by a notorious serial killer who took his own life in an Alaskan jail cell last year after confessing to several murders and kidnappings, the FBI said this afternoon. Federal agents said they have no signs that Debra Feldman, who was 49 when she was last seen, may still be alive. Tupper Lake, NY, a 4½-hour drive from Hackensack, NJ For one thing, they said, the 5-foot-1-inch, 112-pound blonde’s bank accounts haven’t been used. However, the FBI said today that former Army soldier Israel Keyes confessed to abducting a woman …

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Pascack Valley, NJ
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Oakland officers arrest three with counterfeit $100 bills Oakland officers arrest three with counterfeit $100 bills Oakland officers arrest three with counterfeit $100 bills
Oakland officers arrest three with counterfeit $100 bills YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A trio of Oakland patrol officers arrested three men, one of whom tried to pass a bogus $100 bill, at a Walgreens on Ramapo Valley Road, police said this afternoon. A store employee called police after 22-year-old Devon John Sinclair of Brooklyn (above, right) tried using a counterfeit hundred to buy gift cards Friday afternoon, Detective Mark Piercy said. Sinclair told Patrolman Keith Docwra that he’d gotten a ride from a man still waiting in the lot outside, Piercy said. Docwra immediately smelled burnt marijuana from the vehicle, the detective said. With ass…

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Paramus, NJ
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Tenafly teen bumped by car on way to school OK, police say Tenafly teen bumped by car on way to school OK, police say Tenafly teen bumped by car on way to school OK, police say
Tenafly teen bumped by car on way to school OK, police say YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A 14-year-old Tenafly High School junior who was bumped by a turning car as she crossed the street on her way to school this morning appeared fine but was taken to the hospital as a precaution, police said. She was released to her parents a short time later, Detective Capt. Michael deMoncada told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. The girl was crossing Columbus Drive at 7:50 a.m.  as the driver turned left from southbound Cortlandt Place, the captain said. Witnesses told police that sun glare may have played a role, causing visibility issues for the 49-year-old driver from Paramus…

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Hackensack, NJ
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Wife critical, Hackensack man held on $2 million bail in beating Wife critical, Hackensack man held on $2 million bail in beating Wife critical, Hackensack man held on $2 million bail in beating
Wife critical, Hackensack man held on $2 million bail in beating YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A 64-year-old Hackensack man was being held on $2 million bail, charged with attempted murder, for putting his wife in critical condition after beating her, police said this morning. Officers responding to an emergency call yesterday afternoon found the 58-year-old woman unconscious in their Marvin Avenue home after her husband, Thomas Fabbricatore, insisted that nothing had happened, Detective Lt. John Heinemann told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. The officers pressed to see Elizabeth Fabbricatore and found her badly beaten and bleeding from the head, he said. She was rushed …

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Ridgewood, NJ
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Electrical fire destroys front of Ridgewood office building Electrical fire destroys front of Ridgewood office building Electrical fire destroys front of Ridgewood office building
Electrical fire destroys front of Ridgewood office building YOU SAW IT HERE FIRST: A smoky “all-hands” blaze sparked by a electrical short circuit destroyed the wooden facade of a Ridgewood office building this morning. The fire at Gilsenan and Company — realtors, appraisers and property managers –apparently sparked when someone flipped an electrical switch just after 9 a.m., emergency workers told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. Ridgewood firefighters had the blaze completely out in under a half-hour. No injuries were reported. Traffic in both directions of East Ridgewood Avenue between Maple Avenue and Cottage Place remained blocked to all traffic while crew…

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Paramus, NJ
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Bergen County Police officer rescues injured, suicidal woman at BCC Bergen County Police officer rescues injured, suicidal woman at BCC Bergen County Police officer rescues injured, suicidal woman at BCC
Bergen County Police officer rescues injured, suicidal woman at BCC A Bergen County Police officer struggled with and then subdued a suicidal woman who was slicing her arm with a shard of glass as her blood pooled on the floor of a Bergen Community College bathroom. BCPD Christopher Ham got the report of a suicide attempt from a security guard on BCC’s Paramus campus just before 3 p.m. yesterday, Lt. James Mulllin said. Ham found the 26-year-old woman “on the floor of a woman’s bathroom with a large shard of glass in her hand, cutting and slicing her left arm,” Mullin said. Along with the blood were other glass shards, he said. Ham at first tried talk…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
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Officer injured in fight at Port Authority terminal Officer injured in fight at Port Authority terminal Officer injured in fight at Port Authority terminal
Officer injured in fight at Port Authority terminal BEYOND BERGEN: A Port Authority police officer injured his arm and hand during a fight with a homeless man who police said refused to move from one of the entrances to the authority bus terminal in Manhattan. The officer asked 38-year-old John Thomas to move so that people could get in and out as yesterday’s morning rush was beginning, the authority’s Joseph Pentangelo said. At first, Thomas “remained in the doorway, challenging the officer,” Pentangelo said. Then a scuffle began. Despite being pepper-sprayed, Thomas “continued to struggle and assaulted the officer” before taking off on…

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Lyndhurst, NJ
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Wallington detective grabs one in burglary, gets warrant for suspect who fled to Poland Wallington detective grabs one in burglary, gets warrant for suspect who fled to Poland Wallington detective grabs one in burglary, gets warrant for suspect who fled to Poland
Wallington detective grabs one in burglary, gets warrant for suspect who fled to Poland EXCLUSIVE: A Wallington detective’s determined work led to the arrest of one man and a warrant for another who fled to Poland following a borough burglary. Detective Lt. Shawn Kudlacik was investigating last month’s break-in and theft of $17,000 in jewelry, rare coins and credit cards when police got a call from a resident. The resident had become suspicious after a stranger came to her door and asked for a woman who’d moved out more than a month ago, Kudlacik told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. After closing her door, the resident said, she heard the woman shouting at two men in a gray, four-door Niss…

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