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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Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
Breaking News
Bergen bomb squad says mortar at Little Ferry home was dud Bergen bomb squad says mortar at Little Ferry home was dud Bergen bomb squad says mortar at Little Ferry home was dud
Bergen bomb squad says mortar at Little Ferry home was dud YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: The Bergen County Bomb Squad determined that a  mortar it recovered from a Little Ferry home this morning after a charity worker spotted it being used as a doorstop was inert and posed no threat. “It’s been there for quite some time, at least nine or so years since the homeowner bought the place,” Little Ferry Police Chief Ralph Verdi told CLIFFVIEW PILOT this morning. “No one before or after really thought about it.” His officers got the call at 8:57 a.m. from a Habitat for Humanity worker at 135 Lakeview Avenue, Verdi said. Hurricane Sandy took its toll on the ho…

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Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
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Aspiring firefighter saves elderly couple from Mahwah trailer home blaze Aspiring firefighter saves elderly couple from Mahwah trailer home blaze Aspiring firefighter saves elderly couple from Mahwah trailer home blaze
Aspiring firefighter saves elderly couple from Mahwah trailer home blaze EXCLUSIVE: Days short of his 18th birthday, with plans of becoming a firefighter, Morgan Herndon of Mahwah rushed into a burning trailer home and carried out an 87-year-old woman who, dressed in her pajamas, was looking in vain for her three cats. “I pulled into my driveway around 12:15 [a.m. Sunday] after hanging at my friend’s house and saw the fire,” said Herndon, who lives with his family across the street in the Bogert’s Ranch development. “I thought they were having a campfire and walked over there. Then I saw the porch up in flames,” he told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. “I called  the police a…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
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Police grab two in Cliffside Park street kidnapping Police grab two in Cliffside Park street kidnapping Police grab two in Cliffside Park street kidnapping
Police grab two in Cliffside Park street kidnapping YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A trio of Bronx men snatched a Cliffside Park man off the street in a failed effort to collect a debt, then were chased by police last night after they released him on the other side of town, authorities confirmed this morning. The 36-year-old victim was struck with a blunt object — possibly a gun — let out of the car after his abductors realized he didn’t have any money, Cliffside Park Police Chief Donald Keane told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. Bleeding from the head, he approached a special officer stationed at Anderson and Knox avenues and told him what happened, the chief …

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Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
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Special ticket offer for Doomsday Diaries at bergenPAC this Friday Special ticket offer for Doomsday Diaries at bergenPAC this Friday Special ticket offer for Doomsday Diaries at bergenPAC this Friday
Special ticket offer for Doomsday Diaries at bergenPAC this Friday SHOUT OUT: A limited number of specially-priced tickets were still available for this Friday’s Doomsday Diaries gig in Englewood, which they’re billing as “back to the PAC.” With their album nearing completion and a single already in circulation, the band is opening at the Bergen PAC for 80s rockers KIX. They intend to perform several tracks from the new record, featuring vocalist Ella Hester. Tickets are only $15 (see below) Things have been popping for Doomsday Diaries, led by teenaged twin brothers Jay and Sean Sproviero of Hasbrouck Heights. Their single “The Codex” is getting atten…

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Bergenfield, NJ
Breaking News
Arrests in Bergenfield shootings Arrests in Bergenfield shootings Arrests in Bergenfield shootings
Arrests in Bergenfield shootings YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Three men have been arrested and charged in a drug robbery gone wrong that led to the shootings yesterday of two Bergenfield men, one seriously, Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said shortly before 6 p.m. Two of the alleged assailants – identified as Zakeer Roberts, 24 (above, middle), of East Orange and Mario Ferreira (left) 22, of Newark – were both armed when the victims were shot at a Westwide Avenue home yesterday morning, the prosecutor said. They were arrested earlier this afternoon by Bergen County prosecutor’s detectives with help from East Orang…

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Ridgewood, NJ
Breaking News
SUV slams into Ridgewood utility pole after missing curve SUV slams into Ridgewood utility pole after missing curve SUV slams into Ridgewood utility pole after missing curve
SUV slams into Ridgewood utility pole after missing curve YOU SAW IT HERE FIRST: A Lexus SUV slammed into a utility pole in Ridgewood this afternoon after the driver apparently failed to negotiate a curve. Air bags prevented any serious injuries in the crash on South Maple Avenue. The vehicle had to be towed on a flatbed. Ridgewood Officers Paul Dinice and Patrick Elwood investigated and handled traffic control. South Maple Avenue remained open throughout the incident, but traffic flow was restricted to the southbound lane. STORY / PHOTOS: Boyd A. Loving

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Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
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Reforms lead to lower salaries for NJ police and firefighters Reforms lead to lower salaries for NJ police and firefighters Reforms lead to lower salaries for NJ police and firefighters
Reforms lead to lower salaries for NJ police and firefighters (via NJ.com) Spencer Platt/Getty Images TRENTON — After years of winning at the negotiating table, cops and firefighters across New Jersey are losing and walking away these days with much less money. Since January of 2011 — following a wave of reforms that capped…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
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3 indicted in terrifying Albanian social club holdup in Cliffside Park 3 indicted in terrifying Albanian social club holdup in Cliffside Park 3 indicted in terrifying Albanian social club holdup in Cliffside Park
3 indicted in terrifying Albanian social club holdup in Cliffside Park ONLY ON CLIFFVIEW PILOT: A group of Albanian-Americans were playing cards at a Cliffside Park social club when three gunmen in ski masks burst in. Seven people, including two women, were roughed up before the trio – threatening to kill anyone who resisted — made off with watches, wallets, cellphones, jewelry and cash. A Bergen County grand jury indicted three men last week on 21 counts in connection with last year’s Oct. 25 robbery. Cliffside Park police rushed to the now-defunct Anderson Avenue social club, getting there moments after the robbers fled around 2 a.m. At nearly the same t…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
Breaking News
Mahwah fire destroys trailer home, elderly couple escapes Mahwah fire destroys trailer home, elderly couple escapes Mahwah fire destroys trailer home, elderly couple escapes
Mahwah fire destroys trailer home, elderly couple escapes YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A neighbor led a Mahwah couple in their late 80s to safety from an overnight fire — believed caused by several linked extension cords — that destroyed their trailer. The woman, 87, tried to rescue the three couple’s cats but was unable to get to them because of the flames, Mahwah Police Chief James Batelli said. All three died, he said. Emergency workers found the front of the home engulfed just after midnight at the Bogert’s Ranch trailer Park on Pulis Avenue, Batelli said. Mahwah firefighters quickly put down the blaze, preventing it from spreading to other homes…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Pascack Valley, NJ
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Higgins calls actions by ‘stellar’ officers in trooper confrontation ‘inappropriate’ Higgins calls actions by ‘stellar’ officers in trooper confrontation ‘inappropriate’ Higgins calls actions by ‘stellar’ officers in trooper confrontation ‘inappropriate’
Higgins calls actions by ‘stellar’ officers in trooper confrontation ‘inappropriate’ UPDATE: Bergen County Police Chief Brian Higgins today wrote that “poor judg[e]ment” and “inappropriate” behavior by two of his officers in a confrontation they had with a New Jersey State Police trooper in May left him “disappointed.” Higgins also told Nj.com in the email that the single incident “should not be the measure by which opinions are shaped” about two “stellar employees.” This comes after County Executive Kathleen Donovan’s chief of staff on Friday cited a “breakdown of professionalism” – which, at the time, was the first public criticism by county administration of the office…

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