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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Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
Breaking News
More Saddle Brook shed thefts reported, thanks to CLIFFVIEW PILOT More Saddle Brook shed thefts reported, thanks to CLIFFVIEW PILOT More Saddle Brook shed thefts reported, thanks to CLIFFVIEW PILOT
More Saddle Brook shed thefts reported, thanks to Cliffview Pilot YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Reports on CLIFFVIEW PILOT and elsewhere have led several more Saddle Brook resident victimized by shed thieves to come forward, Police Chief Robert Kugler said this afternoon. Several shed break-ins have been reported in recent days by residents on Colonial Avenue, Birk Street, Alberta Avenue, Harley Place, George Street and Oxford Avenue, Kugler said. “Small tools and extension cords have been reported missing,” the chief said. “It appears as though residents became aware of the information disseminated via a Cliffview Pilot article and then checked their sheds t…

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Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
One man arrested, second sought, in Hackensack holdup One man arrested, second sought, in Hackensack holdup One man arrested, second sought, in Hackensack holdup
One man arrested, second sought, in Hackensack holdup EXCLUSIVE: One man was in custody and another was being sought in connection with a holdup last night in Hackensack. Facing a hadngun, the 25-year-old victim surrendered his wallet and an undetermined amount of cash in the 7:30 p.m. robbery on Bloom Street, city police said. Police quickly took one suspect into custody and were looking for a second man who fled on foot. The first man was being held on $150,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail, charged with robbery and two weapons counts. (CLIFFVIEW PILOT is wittholding his identity at the request of police, who were still searching for …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Highlands, NJ
Breaking News
Driver injures back in Midland Park crash Driver injures back in Midland Park crash Driver injures back in Midland Park crash
Driver injures back in Midland Park crash YOU SAW IT HERE FIRST: The driver of a Toyota Camry suffered a serious back injury this afternoon after she lost control of her Toyota Camry, which veered off the road and hit a tree in front of the Midland Park Veterinary Clinic. She was taken by ambulance to The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood after the Godwin Avenue crash. Responding were Midland Park police, firefighters and EMS workers. STORY / PHOTOS: Boyd A. Loving

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Prosecutor: Driver in Route 17 telephone pole crash that ejected one was ‘drinking heavily’ Prosecutor: Driver in Route 17 telephone pole crash that ejected one was ‘drinking heavily’ Prosecutor: Driver in Route 17 telephone pole crash that ejected one was ‘drinking heavily’
Prosecutor: Driver in Route 17 telephone pole crash that ejected one was ‘drinking heavily’ YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A 33-year-old Mahwah man whose Range Rover plowed into a telephone pole on Route 17, flipped and seriously injured two brothers — one of whom was ejected — was “drinking heavily” before the crash, Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said this afternoon. Edward Davis (above left/top & bottom) was at police headquarters this afternoon after being treated at Hackensack University Medical Center and released. He was being taken to the Bergen County jail on $35,500 bail, charged with two counts of criminal assault by auto and DWI. The dark blue, 2003 Range Ro…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
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Saddle Brook HS Class of ’95 concert to fund scholarships in memory of lost classmates Saddle Brook HS Class of ’95 concert to fund scholarships in memory of lost classmates Saddle Brook HS Class of ’95 concert to fund scholarships in memory of lost classmates
Saddle Brook HS Class of ’95 concert to fund scholarships in memory of lost classmates No one in the Saddle Brook High School Class of 1995 wasn’t touched in some way by Erik Lemmer and Dino Colombo, two of four local young adults who died in three separate tragedies. Next month, a labor of love by a trio of those friends will produce a benefit concert by the John Rango Band to fund two scholarships named for Lemmer and Colombo. Bandleader John Rango is organizing and providing the entertainment for the Aug. 10 Saturday night show at VFW Post 3484 on Market Street. “John knew both Erik and Dino very well,” said Todd Aiello, one of the co-founders – and co-funders — of the…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Breaking News
Rash of Saddle Brook shed thefts brings warning from police Rash of Saddle Brook shed thefts brings warning from police Rash of Saddle Brook shed thefts brings warning from police
Rash of Saddle Brook shed thefts brings warning from police YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Saddle Brook police are urging residents to padlock their sheds and keep an eye out, amid a rash of thefts in less than 12 hours. Police fielded five theft reports late Wednesday into early yesterday from residents in the north section of town near Fair Lawn — specifically on Colonial Avenue, Cambridge Avenue, Oak Avenue and Herbert Terrace. All of the sheds entered were unlocked, Saddle Brook Police Chief Robert Kugler said this afternoon. One owner reported a pair of extension cords taken, another two padlocks. Another said a lawnmower battery was missing. “W…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Rochelle Park detectives bust prescription fraud ring, arrest 4 Rochelle Park detectives bust prescription fraud ring, arrest 4 Rochelle Park detectives bust prescription fraud ring, arrest 4
Rochelle Park detectives bust prescription fraud ring, arrest 4 EXCLUSIVE: Four members of a large-scale prescription fraud ring were in the middle of a series of buys at a local pharmacy when Rochelle Park detectives moved in and snatched them up, authorities told CLIFFVIEW PILOT this afternoon. Detective Jim DePreta said he and fellow investigator Chris Bermudez spotted the four while passing area pharmacies on the lookout for suspicious people. “They were parked in the CVS lot, but they were walking back and forth on Rochelle Avenue,” DePreta told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. One of them had already filled a prescription for a three-month supply of Oxycontin…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
Breaking News
Englewood cab driver battles carjacker, police make arrest Englewood cab driver battles carjacker, police make arrest Englewood cab driver battles carjacker, police make arrest
Englewood cab driver battles carjacker, police make arrest YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A feisty Englewood cab driver fended off attempts to strangle him and then surrendered his taxi at knifepoint to a 22-year-old city man who was arrested after detectives tracked the vehicle through GPS, CLIFFVIEW PILOT has learned. Jamel Thomas got into the cab, directly behind the driver, at the Coriander Way apartment complex in Englewood’s 4th Ward just before 12:45 yesterday afternoon, Detective Capt. Tim Torell said. Before they’d even left, Thomas “pulled out a rope and wrapped it around the cab driver’s neck and began strangling him,” he said. “The driver …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cresskill-Closter, NJ
Breaking News
Convicted pervert touched woman on PATH train, Port Authority police say Convicted pervert touched woman on PATH train, Port Authority police say Convicted pervert touched woman on PATH train, Port Authority police say
Convicted pervert touched woman on PATH train, Port Authority police say YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: An ex-con from Jersey City was arrested yesterday by Port Authority police in connection with a sex crime at the Newport PATH station for the second time in 14 months, authorities said this morning. Azeez Powell, who also pleaded guilty last year for punching a male nurse in the face, was arrested at his Bayside Place home in Jersey City yesterday afternoon for contact that Port Authority spokesman Joseph Pentangelo said he made with a female PATH commuter Wednesday morning. Powell, 32, is charged with aggravated criminal sexual assault. Port Authority police arr…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Rutherford, NJ
Breaking News
Fort Lee police seize heroin, cocaine, pot in single stop Fort Lee police seize heroin, cocaine, pot in single stop Fort Lee police seize heroin, cocaine, pot in single stop
Fort Lee police seize heroin, cocaine, pot in single stop EXCLUSIVE: Heroin flows through Bergen County’s major arteries, from the Turnpike to Routes 287, 80 and 17, to the George Washington Bridge, the source of an unceasing flow of smack and other drug traffic that Fort Lee Police Chief Keith Bendul’s department is trying to clog. So when a driver who was stopped on Routes 1 & 9 just barely opened his glove compartment to retrieve his registration and insurance card, Bendul said, Officer Thomas Ripoli wanted a closer look at what looked like a heated-sealed zip-lock bag inside. Bendul said Ripoli also smelled raw pot from inside the 1995 H…

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