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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Judge adds 20 years to sentence of killer who dumped dismembered ex-girlfriend in Teaneck Judge adds 20 years to sentence of killer who dumped dismembered ex-girlfriend in Teaneck Judge adds 20 years to sentence of killer who dumped dismembered ex-girlfriend in Teaneck
Judge adds 20 years to sentence of killer who dumped dismembered ex-girlfriend in Teaneck YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A judge in Hackensack today added at least 10 years without parole to the sentence of a Bronx man who killed and dismembering his ex-girlfriend for desecrating her remains by trying to bury the parts in a Teaneck basement. Julio Flores was “so meticulous” in cutting up the body, Presiding Superior Court Judge Liliana DeAvila-Silebi told him this afternoon, “that I believe you have done it before.” Flores is already serving 19 years to life in a New York state prison for killing 28-year-old Jaritza Calderon in his Bronx apartment in September 2008. His parole eligib…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgewood, NJ
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Sedan, pickup crash in Paramus, driver hospitalized Sedan, pickup crash in Paramus, driver hospitalized Sedan, pickup crash in Paramus, driver hospitalized
Sedan, pickup crash in Paramus, driver hospitalized YOU SAW IT HERE FIRST: A Honda Accord and Ford pickup collided at a Paramus intersection this afternoon, sending the sedan driver to the hospital. The female Accord driver sustained an apparent head injury and was taken by members of the Washington Township Volunteer Ambulance Corps to The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood. The crash occurred just after noon at the intersection of Linwood Avenue East and Highland Avenue. Parmaus police were assisted by their colleages from Ridgewood and Washington Township. PHOTO:  Ridgewood Police Officer Patrick Elwood helps push the Honda out of the lan…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Lyndhurst, NJ
Breaking News
Career burglar, 60, charged with attempted Wallington break-in Career burglar, 60, charged with attempted Wallington break-in Career burglar, 60, charged with attempted Wallington break-in
Career burglar, 60, charged with attempted Wallington break-in EXCLUSIVE: A 60-year-old career burglar was arrested by Wallington police after being called by a resident who spotted him trying to get into a house in the middle of the day, authorities said. Officers rushed to Miller Street and grabbed Steven Benedek of Passaic as he tried getting in through the rear door and window, damaging both, police Capt. Carmello Imbruglia told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. Benedek has a Bergen County criminal record that stretches back nearly 20 years, mostly for burglary. He was being held this time on $15,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail, charged with burglary, crimin…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Rutherford, NJ
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Carlstadt police say ‘hallucinating’ Wood-Ridge man fought back, kicked car window Carlstadt police say ‘hallucinating’ Wood-Ridge man fought back, kicked car window Carlstadt police say ‘hallucinating’ Wood-Ridge man fought back, kicked car window
Carlstadt police say ‘hallucinating’ Wood-Ridge man fought back, kicked car window EXCLUSIVE: Carlstadt police weren’t exactly sure what a 25-year-old Wood-Ridge man out on bail was smoking when he tried to kick out the window of a police cruiser after reportedly seeing a “device” in his girlfriend’s apartment. Officers responded to a Madison Street woman’s call that her boyfriend, James Catrillo, “may have been hallucinating,” Carlstadt Police Chief Thomas Nielsen told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. After he told them a unspecified “device” was inside the home, officers searched but didn’t find anything, the chief said. They did, however, smell the odor of smoked pot, he said. T…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Pascack Valley, NJ
Breaking News
K9, bomb squad, child ID programs, more at Cresskill Public Safety Night K9, bomb squad, child ID programs, more at Cresskill Public Safety Night K9, bomb squad, child ID programs, more at Cresskill Public Safety Night
K9, bomb squad, child ID programs, more at Cresskill Public Safety Night SHOUT OUT: Cresskill police and recreation officials are planning a jam-packed Public Safety Night extravaganza on Saturday, with everything from a K9 unit, bomb squad and two emergency helicopters to Otto the Auto, Sparky the Fire Dog and a valuable free program that can aid in the identification and recovery of missing children. Even with Oradell’s Dive Team, the Bergen County Sheriff’s Bureau of Criminal Identification unit and the county Prosecutor’s Computer Crimes Unit, there will still be plenty more attractions at the second annual event. WHAT: Cresskill Public Safety Night WHEN…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
‘Just be quiet,’ Cliffside Park girl, 14, says accused rapist told her ‘Just be quiet,’ Cliffside Park girl, 14, says accused rapist told her ‘Just be quiet,’ Cliffside Park girl, 14, says accused rapist told her
‘Just be quiet,’ Cliffside Park girl, 14, says accused rapist told her EXCLUSIVE: A 14-year-old girl told jurors in Hackensack yesterday that the 21-year-old Fairview man standing trial for raping her two years ago put a pillow over face and told her to “be quiet. Just be quiet.” With his other hand, she said, Marvin Flores-Gamez pulled off her jeans and panties and had sex with her. “I told him no, no — but he didn’t listen,” the 4-foot-10-inch youngster with the plump, unlined face testified. “And he didn’t stop until I bit him on the shoulder, hard.” Young-looking himself, the 5-foot-7, 175-pound Flores-Gamez “was an ordinary young man living his life, …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
Breaking News
Wyckoff gas main rupture forces evacuations, brings major emergency response Wyckoff gas main rupture forces evacuations, brings major emergency response Wyckoff gas main rupture forces evacuations, brings major emergency response
Wyckoff gas main rupture forces evacuations, brings major emergency response YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A construction company struck a two-inch, high-pressure gas main with a backhoe in Wyckoff this afternoon, forcing police to evacuate a local condominium complex and the YMCA. The Spring Meadow Condominiums were evacuated and a host of police, firefighters and ambulance workers rushed to the corner of Spring Meadow Drive and Bromley Place, police said. No immediate injuries were reported. STORY / PHOTOS: Boyd A. Loving The Y parking lot was being used as a staging area for emergency personnel. Child-care programs at the YMCA, ordinarily open until 6 p.m., were …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Monsey, NY
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Bergen Democrats: Donovan rejects 9-month police consolidation plan in 9 seconds Bergen Democrats: Donovan rejects 9-month police consolidation plan in 9 seconds Bergen Democrats: Donovan rejects 9-month police consolidation plan in 9 seconds
Bergen Democrats: Donovan rejects 9-month police consolidation plan in 9 seconds BERGEN DEMOCRAT FREEHOLDERS WRITE: There’s an old legal aphorism that goes, if you have the facts on your side, you pound the facts. If you have the law on your side, you pound the law. If you have neither on your side, you pound the table. Right now the County Executive is pounding the table, opposing any merger regardless of the merits. Our common-sense proposal is being unjustly rejected. We took 9 months to craft this plan and the Executive made up her mind in 9 seconds.  Bergen County residents should be incensed with any politician who opposes saving the taxpayers between $90 and $200…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Pascack Valley, NJ
Breaking News
Jeep gets better of collision with Honda in Westwood Jeep gets better of collision with Honda in Westwood Jeep gets better of collision with Honda in Westwood
Jeep gets better of collision with Honda in Westwood YOU SAW IT HERE FIRST: A compact car collided with a Jeep in Westwood, sending it onto a pedestrian island, just before 3 p.m. Westwood police and Hillsdale Ambulance responded to the crash at the intersection of Old Hook and Kinderkamack roads. The Honda driver appeared injured, though not seriously. The passenger door and window of his car was smashed. The Jeep, which apparently t-boned the compact car with its grill bars, sustained little apparent damage.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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NJ Supreme Court punchline: South Hackensack judge can’t moonlight as comic NJ Supreme Court punchline: South Hackensack judge can’t moonlight as comic NJ Supreme Court punchline: South Hackensack judge can’t moonlight as comic
NJ Supreme Court punchline: South Hackensack judge can’t moonlight as comic UPDATE: Standup comedian and South Hackensack Municipal Court Judge Vincenzo “Vince August” Sicari found the New Jersey Supreme Court an unforgiving audience: It ruled he can no longer ride both the bench and nightclub crowds. So he turned in his robe. “Vince Sicari, the lawyer, may be free to pursue a parallel career as an actor and comedian,” the state’s highest court ruled. “Once he chose also to serve as a municipal court judge, however, he became subject to the Code of Judicial Conduct.” The justices pointed to interviews with Sicari that were published in the Bergen Record as proof …

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