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
Breaking News
Paramus prep school student, 17, found carrying handgun in hallway Paramus prep school student, 17, found carrying handgun in hallway Paramus prep school student, 17, found carrying handgun in hallway
Paramus prep school student, 17, found carrying handgun in hallway YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Staff at the Windsor Preparatory High School in Paramus found a 17-year-old student carrying a handgun this morning and called police, who took him into custody. The teen was being held at the Bergen County Juvenile Detention Center in Teterboro while authorities try to trace the source of the gun, Police Chief Kenneth Ehrenberg said this afternoon. The chief said his officers got the call at 9:47 a.m. from the Midland Avenue high school. A school staffer “noticed one of their students walking suspiciously in the hallways,” he explained. “When approached by the s…

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Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
Breaking News
Bergen Bike Tour to help Tomorrows Children, Volunteer Center Bergen Bike Tour to help Tomorrows Children, Volunteer Center Bergen Bike Tour to help Tomorrows Children, Volunteer Center
Bergen Bike Tour to help Tomorrows Children, Volunteer Center SHOUT OUT: For the 18th year, hundreds of riders and volunteers will gather to raise money for the Volunteer Center of Bergen County and Tomorrows Children’s Fund, during the Bergen Bike Tour this Sunday, Sept. 29, at Darlington Park in Mahwah. Funds specifically will go to Volunteer Center’s mentoring programs and children who are being treated for cancer or serious blood disorders at Tomorrows Children’s Fund. Routes are 10, 25 and 50 miles, plus a special kids’ ride for the little ones. Registration is $35 for adults, $15 for those 10-16 years old and $10 for kids 9 and under. It i…

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Monsey, NY
Breaking News
FBI seeks other possible victims of sex offender charged with abusing young girl FBI seeks other possible victims of sex offender charged with abusing young girl FBI seeks other possible victims of sex offender charged with abusing young girl
FBI seeks other possible victims of sex offender charged with abusing young girl PUBLIC SAFETY: The FBI is seeking the public’s help in identifying other possible victims of a registered sex offender who the government said traveled through New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania to sexually abusing a young girl – and has lived in various states across the U.S. The man known variously as Joseph Anthony Caracciolo, Joseph Crillo, Joseph Grillo, and Tony Gallardo was due in federal court this afternoon in Camden following his arrested in New York on Aug. 28. Authorities say he has lived in the Orlando, Boca Raton and Palm Beach areas in Florida, as well as in Connecticut,…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Family of boy molested at Leonia firehouse files notice of intent to sue Family of boy molested at Leonia firehouse files notice of intent to sue Family of boy molested at Leonia firehouse files notice of intent to sue
Family of boy molested at Leonia firehouse files notice of intent to sue (via NJ.com) The family of a three-year-old boy authorities say was molested at the borough’s volunteer firehouse this summer has filed a notice of its intent to file a lawsuit. The filing, dated Sept. 6, claims the unidentified boy was and his parents…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Breaking News
U.S. court says federal law bans carrying guns through airport terminals U.S. court says federal law bans carrying guns through airport terminals U.S. court says federal law bans carrying guns through airport terminals
U.S. court says federal law bans carrying guns through airport terminals YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Federal law allows you to transport legal firearms across states — but not with you through airport terminals, a U.S. District court has ruled, in rejecting a suit by the New Jersey affiliate of the NRA against the Port Authority. The Association of Rifle and Pistol Clubs of New York and New Jersey filed the suit on behalf of out-of-state gun owners who travel through Newark Liberty International Airport. It claimed that the federal Firearm Owner’s Protection Act trumps New Jersey gun-control laws that prohibit possession of a firearm without a permit and possession …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Bergen prosecutor: Hackensack man, 19, sexually assaulted Teaneck girl, 11 Bergen prosecutor: Hackensack man, 19, sexually assaulted Teaneck girl, 11 Bergen prosecutor: Hackensack man, 19, sexually assaulted Teaneck girl, 11
Bergen prosecutor: Hackensack man, 19, sexually assaulted Teaneck girl, 11 YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A 19-year-old Hackensack man is charged with sexually assaulting an 11-year-old Teaneck girl at least four times. Quashawn Nowlin of Lehigh Street was arrested yesterday by detectives from the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Special Victims Unit and Teaneck police, county Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said this morning. Molinelli said the victim told her sister, who then alerted the girl’s mother. She, in turn, contacted the state Division of Child Protection and Permanency (DCP&P), which  notified the Special Victims Unit, the prosecutor said. Nowlin, who Mollinel…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
No plea offer to jilted Fort Lee man accused of killing ex with car No plea offer to jilted Fort Lee man accused of killing ex with car No plea offer to jilted Fort Lee man accused of killing ex with car
No plea offer to jilted Fort Lee man accused of killing ex with car EXCLUSIVE: A Fort Lee man charged with killing his girlfriend by deliberately driving his car over her several times after she jilted him won’t be offered a plea deal and must go to trial, CLIFFVIEW PILOT has learned. Witnesses told investigators that Charles J. Ann drove off in the middle of a February 2012 argument with 25-year old Aena Hong near the intersection of Inwood Terrace and Anderson Avenue in Fort Lee — then turned around his 2011 Hyundai Sonata and gunned the accelerator. After the car struck her, they said, Ann “put the car in reverse and backed up over the victim,” then “d…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
New Leonia Police Chief Thomas Rowe sworn in New Leonia Police Chief Thomas Rowe sworn in New Leonia Police Chief Thomas Rowe sworn in
New Leonia Police Chief Thomas Rowe sworn in YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Surrounded by his family and a packed room of well-wishers, Thomas Rowe was sworn in last night as Leonia’s next police chief, ending nearly six months of what some residents described as “limbo” over the administration of law enforcement of their borough. “Are you ready?” Mayor John DeSimone asked. “Yes,” Rowe answered firmly. “Are you sure?” the mayor asked, bringing a chuckle from the crowd, many of them fellow chiefs and officers from surrounding towns. “Positive,” Rowe answered. “This time.” Leonia Police Chief Thomas Rowe (STORY / PHOTOS: Mary K. Miragl…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
Breaking News
Two charged in holdup of Cliffside Park juvenile in Fairview Two charged in holdup of Cliffside Park juvenile in Fairview Two charged in holdup of Cliffside Park juvenile in Fairview
Two charged in holdup of Cliffside Park juvenile in Fairview YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A second man charged in the robbery of a 17-year-old Cliffside park boy in Fairview last week was being held on $100,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail, the same as his alleged accomplice, following his arrest over the weekend. The boy told police that both men approached him on Anderson Avenue early last Tuesday night, pushed him into an alley and took an iPhone and $220 in cash. One of them — later identified as Majk Selimi, 18, of Cliffside Park (above, right) –took out a gun and pointed to his stomach during the holdup, then put it away and pulled a knife, the …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Stolen Alpine SUV found in Fort Lee with motor running Stolen Alpine SUV found in Fort Lee with motor running Stolen Alpine SUV found in Fort Lee with motor running
Stolen Alpine SUV found in Fort Lee with motor running YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: The Bergen County Sheriff’s Bureau of Criminal Identification was searching an SUV for clues today after it was stolen out of Alpine and found by Fort Lee police — on a curb with the motor running — just after 3:30 this morning. The 2012 Land Rover was left unlocked — with the key fob inside — when it was taken from the driveway of an Alpine residence sometimes between 6 o’clock last night and 2 this morning, Alpine Police Chief Christopher Belcolle told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. Englewood Cliffs police tried to stop the vehicle a short time after it was taken, but the driv…

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