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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Northern Valley, NJ
Breaking News
Atlantic City lifeguard charged with having sex with Northvale girl, 15 Atlantic City lifeguard charged with having sex with Northvale girl, 15 Atlantic City lifeguard charged with having sex with Northvale girl, 15
Atlantic City lifeguard charged with having sex with Northvale girl, 15 YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: An Atlantic City lifeguard came to Northvale last week and had sex with a 15-year-old girl he met online, Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said this morning. David Mariche-Banos, 21, met the girl on “Tinychat.com,” told her he was younger and made arrangements for a meeting, the prosecutor said. He was arrested and charged with second-degree sexual assault after the encounter, Molinelli said. The prosecutor didn’t say how authorities found out. Mariche-Banos was being held on $75,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail. MUGSHOT: Courtesy BERGEN COUNTY P…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
Breaking News
3 sought in Englewood mugging, victim in ICU 3 sought in Englewood mugging, victim in ICU 3 sought in Englewood mugging, victim in ICU
3 sought in Englewood mugging, victim in ICU YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Englewood police are looking for three assailants who severely beat a 35-year-old Brooklyn man with a baseball bat, taking his cellphone and new Lebron James sneakers — and leaving him with head injuries and a collapsed lung. “This appears to have been a targeted attack,” Detective Capt. Timothy Torell told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. “The victim is extremely lucky to be alive,” Torell said. “He took a pretty bad beating.” Patrons of bar jumped the man around 3:30 this morning on Tallman Place between James and West Streets. One of the his him with a baseball bat, Torell sa…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Special benefit dinner for Lodi breast cancer victim Special benefit dinner for Lodi breast cancer victim Special benefit dinner for Lodi breast cancer victim
Special benefit dinner for Lodi breast cancer victim SHOUT OUT: A special benefit beefsteak dinner is planned for a Lodi woman battling breast cancer. The Sept. 7 dinner for Alicia Veri-Rodriguez will be at the Boys & Girls Club of Lodi on Passaic Avenue. Earlier this year, members of the Lodi Police Department shaved their heads to raise breast cancer awareness and show support for Veri-Rodriguez (SEE: Lodi police shave heads to support breast cancer victim). TICKETS / MORE INFO: (973) 473-7410 x113

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Bergen teens art exhibit celebrates women’s right to vote Bergen teens art exhibit celebrates women’s right to vote Bergen teens art exhibit celebrates women’s right to vote
Bergen teens art exhibit celebrates women’s right to vote SHOUT OUT: Women’s right to vote is celebrated in an art exhibit featuring works by students from the Bergen County Technical High School in Teterboro, David E. Owens Middle School in New Milford and Mahwah High School. Eighteen students submitted works that contain their interpretations of the significance of Women’s Equality Day (Aug. 8). The exhibit, sponsored by the Bergen County Commission on the Status of Women, is on display in the lobby of the Bergen County Administrative Building in Hackensack. The observance of Women’s Equality Day commemorates the passage of the 19th Amendmen…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Moving funeral tribute planned for Demarest firefighter ‘Ricky’ Morris Moving funeral tribute planned for Demarest firefighter ‘Ricky’ Morris Moving funeral tribute planned for Demarest firefighter ‘Ricky’ Morris
Moving funeral tribute planned for Demarest firefighter ‘Ricky’ Morris TRIBUTE: A 1948 pumper truck this Tuesday morning will carry the body of 40-year firefighter Richard F. “Ricky” Morris to the Demarest firehouse, where the bell up top will ring, the Fireman’s Prayer will be broadcast and a final siren will sound during a moving tribute. Firefighters in full dress uniform from Demarest and other towns will dismount their vehicles and walk alongside the L85 Mack pumper caisson as it approaches the Park Street firehouse for the ceremony honoring Morris, a longtime Closter resident who died Friday after a brave battle with a rare form of leukemia. He was 61.…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgewood, NJ
Breaking News
2 escape injury in Ridgewood utility pole crash 2 escape injury in Ridgewood utility pole crash 2 escape injury in Ridgewood utility pole crash
2 escape injury in Ridgewood utility pole crash EXCLUSIVE: A driver and passenger escaped serious injury tonight when their Toyota Prius rammed a utility pole on East Ridgewood Avenue near Southern Parkway. Ridgewood police and EMS personnel responded. No power disruptions were reported. The Prius had to be towed from the scene. Both occupants refused medical attention. STORY / PHOTO: Boyd A. Loving

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Breaking News
Fair Lawn train death 21st this year for NJ Transit Fair Lawn train death 21st this year for NJ Transit Fair Lawn train death 21st this year for NJ Transit
Fair Lawn train death 21st this year for NJ Transit YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A man was struck and killed by a commuter train in Fair Lawn at the border of Elmwood Park this afternoon in an apparent suicide — the 21st such fatality for NJ Transit this year. No passengers were aboard the Hoboken-bound Bergen line train when the 33-year-old Fair Lawn man stepped into its path just east of the Broadway station and was struck just after 1:40 p.m., NJ Transit spokesman William Smith told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. Traffic was suspended between the Plauderville station in Garfield and Ridgewood for about an hour and 15 minutes before being restored. Berge…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
Breaking News
Indictment: Personal trainer tried selling 6 illegal guns in Edgewater, Jersey City Indictment: Personal trainer tried selling 6 illegal guns in Edgewater, Jersey City Indictment: Personal trainer tried selling 6 illegal guns in Edgewater, Jersey City
Indictment: Personal trainer tried selling 6 illegal guns in Edgewater, Jersey City EXCLUSIVE: A personal trainer who authorities said was headed to an undercover gun buy in Edgewater when detectives moved in was indicted by a Bergen County grand jury on charges of having six illegal guns in his car and apartment. Dustin Robalino-Arcos, 35, an Ecuadoran national who lives in Lewisville, Texas, has been free on $100,00 bail since being released from the Bergen County Jail four days after his Aug. 10, 2012 arrest. An undercover detective with the Bergen County Narcotic Task Force connected with Robalino-Arcos after learning that he was running guns in the New York/New Jers…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
Breaking News
Port Authority police stop DWI pharmacist with stolen Corvette, $40,000 cash Port Authority police stop DWI pharmacist with stolen Corvette, $40,000 cash Port Authority police stop DWI pharmacist with stolen Corvette, $40,000 cash
Port Authority police stop DWI pharmacist with stolen Corvette, $40,000 cash YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Long Island pharmacist awaiting trial in a drunk-driving accident last month was intoxicated, driving a stolen convertible and carrying $40,000 in cash when Port Authority police said they stopped him at the entrance to the Holland Tunnel last night. Simon C. Dolmaian, 42, was behind the wheel of a 2013 Corvette convertible that police said he drove off the lot of an Atlantic City dealership hours earlier after going in to ask about buying a car. Port Authority police, who stopped him around 7:30 p.m., also found a bottle containing more than two dozen illegally …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Bicyclist, 55, killed in Alpine Bicyclist, 55, killed in Alpine Bicyclist, 55, killed in Alpine
Bicyclist, 55, killed in Alpine A 55-year-old Queens woman riding her bicycle in the Alpine Hill area of Henry Hudson Drive fell off, hit her head and was killed this afternoon, Palisades Interstate Parkway police said. It’s unclear why the woman ran off the road, fell off and was critically injured just after 4:30 p.m. PIP police found the Jackson Heights woman after responding to a call of an unconscious biker, Acting Chief Michael Coppola said tonight. Besides hitting her head, she’d apparently suffered a severe arm injury, he said. “Due to the victim’s condition and remote location, a medevac was requested,” he sa…

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