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
Arrest in brutal Edgewater rape Arrest in brutal Edgewater rape Arrest in brutal Edgewater rape
Arrest in brutal Edgewater rape YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A multi-state manhunt ended on a West New York rooftop when detectives from Edgewater and the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Special Victims Unit chased down and arrested a Mexican national charged in a brutal rape. Arsenio Amelco, who turned 23 on Friday, assaulted the 26-year-old female acquaintance in an underground garage at the Pier 115 restaurant in Edgewater in “the early morning hours” on Sunday,  Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said tonight. During the assault, Amelco “beat the victim with his hands and threatened to kill her,” leaving the woman wit…

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Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Englewood burglary crew members convicted in heist of safe Englewood burglary crew members convicted in heist of safe Englewood burglary crew members convicted in heist of safe
Englewood burglary crew members convicted in heist of safe YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Three remaining members of the infamous Boone burglary gang were convicted by a jury in Hackensack today for their roles in the theft of a 600-pound safe from Connecticut that a special investigative task force caught them trying to crack open in an Englewood garage. After less than four hours of deliberations, jurors agreed with Assistant Bergen County Prosecutor David Calviello, who said during the trial that Jarrell Bordeaux, 27, and Marc Rainey, 26, both of Englewood, “were literally caught red-handed,” and that a third man, 31-year-old Renando Sheffield, was an …

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Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
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Female Saddle Brook police officer appointed Female Saddle Brook police officer appointed Female Saddle Brook police officer appointed
Female Saddle Brook police officer appointed YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Saddle Brook  has appointed a new female police officer who will begin training this Monday at the Bergen County Law & Public Safety Institute in Mahwah. An EMT who has served with the Saddle Brook Volunteer Ambulance Corps the past seven years, Rebecca Sanchez got her Master of Arts Degree in Criminal Justice from Rutgers University last year. She’s also been an intern with the Bergen County Sheriff’s Office’s Community Outreach Unit. “We are so, so happy and pleased to have Rebecca join our department,” Police Chief Robert Kugler told CLIFFVIEW PILOT this aft…

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Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Ridgewood police probe possible burglary connections to juveniles Ridgewood police probe possible burglary connections to juveniles Ridgewood police probe possible burglary connections to juveniles
Ridgewood police probe possible burglary connections to juveniles Ridgewood police, who took two juveniles into custody in connection with a pair of car burglaries on the same street last night, were still collecting reports today of break-ins to other vehicles, as well as to some storage sheds. Some residents reported finding stolen property on their lawns that had been left there overnight, one village resident told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. Officers from several departments, as well as a K-9 unit from the Bergen County Sheriff’s Office, participated in last night’s search, foot chase and arrest of two village juveniles directly connected to consecutive vehicl…

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Paramus, NJ
Breaking News
Arrests made in brazen Paramus T-Mobile holdup Arrests made in brazen Paramus T-Mobile holdup Arrests made in brazen Paramus T-Mobile holdup
Arrests made in brazen Paramus T-Mobile holdup YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Federal agents this morning arrested two Brooklyn men and charged them in separate holdups of T-Mobile stores, including one this past January on Route 17 in Paramus. Unique Randolph, 24, and another man entered the T-Mobile store in at Park Place in Paramus around 2 o’clock Jan. 16, federal authorities said this morning. They brought three employees and a customer to the back of the store, where they forced three of them to lie on the floor, tying them up, an FBI complaint on file in U.S. District Court in Newark says. Randolph, who was carrying a gun, “forced […

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by Jerry DeMarco
Rutherford, NJ
Breaking News
Route 46 traffic incident leads to weapons charges in Carlstadt Route 46 traffic incident leads to weapons charges in Carlstadt Route 46 traffic incident leads to weapons charges in Carlstadt
Route 46 traffic incident leads to weapons charges in Carlstadt YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: An early-morning traffic incident on Route 46 in Hasbrouck Heights spilled into a Carlstadt parking lot, where, police said, a driver wielding a baseball bat confronted two Paterson men with box cutters. The first driver told police one of the men “made an abrupt turn” with a Honda Accord, possibly hitting his GMC Yukon, but kept going around 8:30 a.m. yesterday. So he said he chased them. When they reached the lot on Commerce Boulevard, Police Chief Thomas Nielsen said, the Yukon driver said both men got out with box cutters, so he grabbed the bat. Jose Ortiz …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgewood, NJ
Breaking News
Driver of ‘other’ car in Ridgewood pedestrian crash found Driver of ‘other’ car in Ridgewood pedestrian crash found Driver of ‘other’ car in Ridgewood pedestrian crash found
Driver of ‘other’ car in Ridgewood pedestrian crash found EXCLUSIVE: Ridgewood police have found the driver of a car that a motorist said she swerved to avoid, sending her vehicle into a utility pole and a pedestrian who was thrown nearly 20 feet. As of this morning, no charges had been issued against the 65-year-old driver, a licensed physician in the village with offices in two Bergen County towns, CLIFFVIEW PILOT has learned. Police said the investigation was continuing, however. A Rockland County man was standing on the corner of South Maple Avenue and Dayton Street on July 11 when the Saddle Brook woman’s car struck him. The woman told …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Rutherford, NJ
Breaking News
Fort Lee police motorcycle unit wins big in Special Olympics fundraiser Fort Lee police motorcycle unit wins big in Special Olympics fundraiser Fort Lee police motorcycle unit wins big in Special Olympics fundraiser
Fort Lee police motorcycle unit wins big in Special Olympics fundraiser SHOUT OUT: A fundraiser for Special Olympics New Jersey saw motorcycle officers from the Fort Lee Police Department win several awards this past weekend. Officers and civilians from the New Jersey and New York area competed in various events during the Motorcycle Skills and Competition at the Willowbrook Mall in Wayne. “While we are very proud of the participating officers, we are prouder to support  this worthy cause and organization,” Fort Lee Police Chief Keith Bendul said. Besides raising money, the competition “allows motor officers to maintain critical skills used each day as they…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Fort Lee teen, 19, accused of having sex with girl, 14 Fort Lee teen, 19, accused of having sex with girl, 14 Fort Lee teen, 19, accused of having sex with girl, 14
Fort Lee teen, 19, accused of having sex with girl, 14 YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A 19-year-old Fort Lee man was arrested by investigators from the borough and the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Special Victims Unit on charges of having sex with a 14-year-old girl. Malik S. Bell, of Linwood Avenue, was being held on $75,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail, charged with sexual assault and  child endangerment. Bell was arrested yesterday after the girl’s mother contacted police, who notified the SVU. *          *          *          *          * LET’S BE CLEAR: Nothing in the law can be more definitive than what constitutes statutory rape: It is…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Murderer insists he was ‘guided by voices’ in dismembering and burying girlfriend in Teaneck basement Murderer insists he was ‘guided by voices’ in dismembering and burying girlfriend in Teaneck basement Murderer insists he was ‘guided by voices’ in dismembering and burying girlfriend in Teaneck basement
Murderer insists he was ‘guided by voices’ in dismembering and burying girlfriend in Teaneck basement YOU READ IT HERE FIRST:  A man convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend in his Bronx apartment testified today that he was guided by voices when he dismembered her body and sealed the pieces in the basement steps of a Teaneck house — but he insisted that he didn’t desecrate her body once he was in New Jersey. “I was out of my mind,” Julio Flores told Assistant Bergen County Prosecutor Wayne Mello during questioning in Hackensack. Flores admitted putting water in a container of instant mortar mix outside of the Ardsley Court house, where prosecutors said he’d previously done construction wor…

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