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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Pascack Valley, NJ
Breaking News
Police: Suicidal Westwood man calmed by Bergen dispatcher had 20 guns Police: Suicidal Westwood man calmed by Bergen dispatcher had 20 guns Police: Suicidal Westwood man calmed by Bergen dispatcher had 20 guns
Police: Suicidal Westwood man calmed by Bergen dispatcher had 20 guns EXCLUSIVE: Calming words from a Bergen County Police Department dispatcher and restraint from local officers averted potential disaster after a drunken Westwood man threatened to kill himself with a loaded semi-automatic handgun, authorities said. It was only after the troubled caller put the weapon down and surrendered that police said they discovered that he’d positioned several other loaded firearms in a path from his front porch into the Dean Street house. “It looked like he was ready to go,” one veteran officer told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. “Who knows what could have happened if it escalated…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Highlands, NJ
Breaking News
Passaic man, 31, charged with molesting Midland Park girl, 15 Passaic man, 31, charged with molesting Midland Park girl, 15 Passaic man, 31, charged with molesting Midland Park girl, 15
Passaic man, 31, charged with molesting Midland Park girl, 15 ONLY ON CLIFFVIEW PILOT: A 31-year old ex-con is charged with molesting a 15-year-old Midland Park girl. Gene W. Britton, Jr. of Passaic was arraigned in Superior Court in Hackensack yesterday on an indictment charging him with touching the girl’s breast and vagina and putting her hand on his genitals. Britton pleaded not guilty to the counts — two of aggravated sexual assault, one of sexual condut and one of impairing the morals of a minor. The incidents occured between Feb. 1 and March 3 of this year, the indictment returned against Britton seven weeks ago alleges. STORY / PHOTO: Ma…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Garfield-Lodi, NJ
Breaking News
NJ ABC revokes license of go-go bar that served DWI crash victims NJ ABC revokes license of go-go bar that served DWI crash victims NJ ABC revokes license of go-go bar that served DWI crash victims
NJ ABC revokes license of go-go bar that served DWI crash victims BEYOND BERGEN: The state ABC has revoked the liquor license of a Cumberland County go-go bar that served two underage men who  were later killed in a drunk-driving crash. Ian Drebes, 20, and 18-year-old Jonathan Rothschild were ejected from Drebes’s vehicle after he lost control of it around 2 a.m. June 28, 2011 on a road in Vineland. Toxicology tests found that Drebes had a blood-alcohol level of .157% and Rothschild .162%. Both were carrying fake IDs that showed them over 21, police said. The ABC found the licensees of Kashmir in Vineland — David Glassman and Jack Paik — guilty of two…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
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Wood-Ridge police show what happens when you don’t return a rented vehicle Wood-Ridge police show what happens when you don’t return a rented vehicle Wood-Ridge police show what happens when you don’t return a rented vehicle
Wood-Ridge police show what happens when you don’t return a rented vehicle EXCLUSIVE: Here’s what happens when you abandon a rental: On Saturday, Wood-Ridge police received a report that a U-Haul van had been left on a borough street. Inside, officers found a driver’s license and court papers belonging to a New York City man. They then discovered that the van was rented several weeks ago but not returned. So they contacted Christopher Morris of New York City and asked him to come to headquarters, Detective Joseph Rutigliano Jr. told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. Then they issued him a summons for theft. The van was returned to U-Haul, Rutigliano said. MUGSHOT: Courtesy W…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Accused Englewood brother/sister crime team facing different fates Accused Englewood brother/sister crime team facing different fates Accused Englewood brother/sister crime team facing different fates
Accused Englewood brother/sister crime team facing different fates ONLY ON CLIFFVIEW PILOT: The female half of an accused brother/sister crime team from Englewood could receive probation, but her younger sibling is likely looking at much more serious consequences — even if he’s convicted of only some of the charges against him. Ariel Holmes also would also have to pay $300 in restitution to the victims under a plea deal, Assistant Bergen County Prosecutor Edward Burke said during their arraignments in Hackensack yesterday. On the other hand, Richard Holmes — who turns 20 in ten days — faces 19 charges in an indictment that accuses him of robbery, theft, …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Water suits going to Bergen fire departments, county police Water suits going to Bergen fire departments, county police Water suits going to Bergen fire departments, county police
Water suits going to Bergen fire departments, county police More than two dozen complete sets of swift- and flood-water dry suits will be distributed to several municipal fire departments in Bergen County this week. The Fire Working Group of the Bergen County Terrorism Task Force obtained a grant to buy the 25 suit suits and accompanying equipment. “This equipment will improve the abilities to deploy more trained first responders to assist in Swift Water/ Flood Water situations throughout Bergen County,” the county said in an official release. A formal ceremony is scheduled for 7 p.m. Thursday at the county Public Safety Operations Center in Mah…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
TONIGHT: Leonia Council to vote on eliminating Fire Company TONIGHT: Leonia Council to vote on eliminating Fire Company TONIGHT: Leonia Council to vote on eliminating Fire Company
Tonight: Leonia Council to vote on eliminating Fire Company TONIGHT: Angry Leonia residents are mobilizing for a 7:30 meeting during which the Borough Council is expected to introduce a measure that would eliminate the town’s 115-year-old volunteer fire company and force members to reapply for their positions. The council tabled the vote last month after dozens of firefighters, residents and business owners turned out to vigorously object. BULLETIN: By a 4-0 vote, with one abstention, the Council unanimously approved introducing the ordinance, which is scheduled to be voted upon at its Sept. 4 public  meeting. It seemed to be triggered when an …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cresskill-Closter, NJ
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Attorney for undocumented laborer in Englewood arsons gets more time to prep case Attorney for undocumented laborer in Englewood arsons gets more time to prep case Attorney for undocumented laborer in Englewood arsons gets more time to prep case
Attorney for undocumented laborer in Englewood arsons gets more time to prep case YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A defense attorney got a little over two weeks more today to review the evidence in the case of an undocumented day laborer who police said set an Englewood neighborhood on edge last summer by torching several cars and a house, then two more cars weeks later. Marco Antonio Rene has been held on $2.5 million bail in the Bergen County Jail since his June, 2012 arrest. The INS has placed a retainer on the Guatemalan citizen for deportation purposes once the case has been resolved. Rene has been in the country illegally since 2010, as CLIFFVIEW PILOT first reported e…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Saddle Brook police: dealer, 17, five users arrested Saddle Brook police: dealer, 17, five users arrested Saddle Brook police: dealer, 17, five users arrested
Saddle Brook police: dealer, 17, five users arrested YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A 17-year-old boy was carrying $1,000 in cash, several small bags of pot and a digital scale when a Saddle Brook police sergeant found him and a girl sitting in a parked car at 4:30 in the morning, authorities said today. Sergeant Victor VanDyk was patrolling the property of the Saddle Brook Center off Route 46 when he spotted the 2009 Ford near the McDonalds. The couple apparently was sharing a marijuana blunt and had Ziploc bags of marijuana in open view, Deputy Chief Robert White said. The boy was taken into custody and served juvenile complaints for possessio…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Arraignments for brother, sister in Hackensack pellet gun shootings Arraignments for brother, sister in Hackensack pellet gun shootings Arraignments for brother, sister in Hackensack pellet gun shootings
Arraignments for brother, sister in Hackensack pellet gun shootings EXCLUSIVE: A Hackensack man and his sister were arraigned today following their indictments last month in connection with a pair of pellet gun shootings in which a man was hit and a young girl was narrowly missed. Nicholas Battaglia, a pizza maker and window washer, apparently was taking potshots at people “for fun,” Detective Capt. Thomas Salcedo told CLIFFVIEW PILOT at the time of the mid-March shootings. The Battaglia siblings, along with a replica of the type of weapon The victims were in the area of a Pizza Hut parking lot at Essex and State streets across from Battaglia’s apartmen…

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