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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Englewood, NJ
Breaking News
Englewood police find high-end SUV in carjacking report Englewood police find high-end SUV in carjacking report Englewood police find high-end SUV in carjacking report
Englewood police find high-end SUV in carjacking report YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Bergen County Sheriff Michael Saudino’s Bureau of Criminal Identification is examining a high-end SUV that two Brooklyn men told Englewood police was carjacked from them over the weekend. The vehicle turned up today in the Rock Creek Terrace housing development — a scene of shootings, drug activity and other crime — after the carjacking report was filed with police around midnight Saturday, Detective Capt. Timothy Torell told CLIFFVIEW PILOT tonight. The Range Rover Sport HSE, equipped with the “Supercharged Package,” ws taken by at least three armed assailants on …

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Hackensack, NJ
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Driver, 92, plows sedan into Saddle Brook McDonalds front entrance Driver, 92, plows sedan into Saddle Brook McDonalds front entrance Driver, 92, plows sedan into Saddle Brook McDonalds front entrance
Driver, 92, plows sedan into Saddle Brook McDonalds front entrance YOU SAW IT HERE FIRST: A 92-year-old driver threw it into drive instead of reverse today and plowed his 13-year-old sedan through the front door of a McDonalds on Route 46 in Saddle Brook this morning, leaving a 20-foot skid mark in the parking lot. The 2000 Mercury Marquis came barreling through the fast-food restaurant around 7:30 this morning, damaging the plate-glass windows and part of the building facade, Saddle Brook Deputy Police Chief Robert White told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. None of the customers or workers inside were hurt, nor was the driver, White said. However, the vehicle had to…

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Englewood, NJ
Breaking News
Threats to Englewood mosque during Ramadan under investigation Threats to Englewood mosque during Ramadan under investigation Threats to Englewood mosque during Ramadan under investigation
Threats to Englewood mosque during Ramadan under investigation YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Englewood police say they have “several significant leads” in a series of threatening phone calls to a mosque in town. The Mehfile-Shahe-Khorasan Charitable Trust Mosque on Liberty Road, in the city’s 3rd Ward, reported the calls to police yesterday afternoon, the 14th day of Ramadan. Staff members were interviewed and, “as a result of what was relayed to our officers, we decided to err on the side of caution,” Detective Capt. Timothy Torell told CLIFFVIEW PILOT this afternoon. “We contacted the Bergen County Police Department and requested their Bomb Squad and K…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Hackensack police shooting: Here’s what happened Hackensack police shooting: Here’s what happened Hackensack police shooting: Here’s what happened
Hackensack police shooting: Here’s what happened YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Hackensack police officer “is lucky to be alive” after a bullet fired by an armed man being chased overnight shattered the windshield of his squad car and whizzed by his head, city Police Director Michael Mordaga told CLIFFVIEW PILOT this afternoon. Sgt. James Dalton, a 12-year department veteran, and Officer Franklin Bay were the first on the scene after a call came in around 1 a.m. today of a man with a gun in the housing projects on Newman Street and Railroad Avenue, Mordaga said. Seeing the officers, the suspect — later identified as 22-year-old Leonardis — t…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Englewood Cliffs restaurant worker nearly bitten during car theft Englewood Cliffs restaurant worker nearly bitten during car theft Englewood Cliffs restaurant worker nearly bitten during car theft
Englewood Cliffs restaurant worker nearly bitten during car theft YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: An alleged car thief was arrested after police said he nearly bit an Englewood Cliffs restaurant employee and tried to take off with a customer’s Mercedes. “It is alleged that he was attempting to steal a Mercedes when apparently restaurant employees intervened,” Englewood Cliffs Police Chief Michael Cioffi told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. The thief tried biting one of the workers but apparently only got part of his jacket, the chief said. Englewood Cliffs Police Officer Jae Lee chased down 25-year-old Alvin Reid four blocks south of the restaurant, near Parkway Toyota on S…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Gunman, 22, in Hackensack police shooting has criminal record Gunman, 22, in Hackensack police shooting has criminal record Gunman, 22, in Hackensack police shooting has criminal record
Gunman, 22, in Hackensack police shooting has criminal record YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Four Hackensack police officers were involved in a shootout overnight with a suspect who was struck by gunfire and remains in critical condition this morning at Hackensack University Medical Center. The officers got a report of a man with a gun around 1 a.m. today two blocks from HUMC, Hackensack Police Director Michael Mordaga told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Hackensack police officer “is lucky to be alive” after a bullet fired by an armed man being chased overnight shattered the windshield of his squad car and whizzed by his head, city Police Dire…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Rutherford, NJ
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East Rutherford suicide victim battled demons, loved family East Rutherford suicide victim battled demons, loved family East Rutherford suicide victim battled demons, loved family
East Rutherford suicide victim battled demons, loved family TRIBUTE: Life is messy, nothing is ever black and white, and true peace is often just out of reach: So it was with Shaun Campbell, a man determined to make a better life for himself, and for those he loved, while trying to outrun a past that stubbornly refused to let go. So it was that Campbell, a man whose loved ones said was giving his very best while battling bi-polar disorder, died where he lived, stepping in front of a passenger-less train in East Rutherford last Monday. “Sadly, behind that infectious smile, he battled demons and its wake of horrors, which ultimately became more than…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Hackensack man gets three years for sexually assaulting mentally disabled boy Hackensack man gets three years for sexually assaulting mentally disabled boy Hackensack man gets three years for sexually assaulting mentally disabled boy
Hackensack man gets three years for sexually assaulting mentally disabled boy EXCLUSIVE: A Hackensack man who admitted sexually assaulting a mentally disabled boy after getting him drunk over the 2012 New Year’s holiday will spend at least the next 30 months behind bars for the crime. Michael Leap admitted to plying the then-17-year-old boy with alcohol and assaulting him several times, which his lawyer on Friday called “an aberrant act in an otherwise law abiding life.” “My client’s remorse is incredibly deep,” attorney Mark Leibman told Superior Court Judge Edward Jerejian in a Hackensack courtroom Friday. “The circumstances that led to the offenses were unique…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Pascack Valley, NJ
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Reward up to $5,000 in hit and run that injured Washington Township officer Reward up to $5,000 in hit and run that injured Washington Township officer Reward up to $5,000 in hit and run that injured Washington Township officer
Reward up to $5,000 in hit and run that injured Washington Township officer ALERT: The reward has been increased to $5,000 for information leading to the arrest of the driver of a black SUV that struck a Washington Township officer as she walked back to her cruiser after writing a parking ticket early this morning. Officer Heather Castronova sustained a fractured elbow, among other injuries, when she was clipped around 4 a.m. on Fern Street, a residential road near Washington Avenue, Lt. Rich Skinner said this afternoon. The driver kept going, heading south on Washington Avenue. Castronova was released after being treated at the Valley Hospital in Ridgewood. …

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Northern Highlands, NJ
Breaking News
Medevac picks up driver in Garden State Parkway rollover Medevac picks up driver in Garden State Parkway rollover Medevac picks up driver in Garden State Parkway rollover
Medevac picks up driver in Garden State Parkway rollover YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A 55-year-old motorist was flown to Hackensack University Medical Center by helicopter from the Garden State Parkway in Washington Township after his SUV jumped a divider, smashed into a tree and caught fire. Passersby pulled the man from the burning vehicle following the 1:40 p.m. crash, State Police Sgt. Brian Polite told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. Township police then closed down the southbound stretch of parkway, getting some cars to back up far enough, so that AirMed One could land in the center lane. The victim, who was bleeding severely from a leg artery, went in an…

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