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
Hasbrouck Heights officer hospitalized after Route 17 crash Hasbrouck Heights officer hospitalized after Route 17 crash Hasbrouck Heights officer hospitalized after Route 17 crash
Hasbrouck Heights officer hospitalized after Route 17 crash EXCLUSIVE: A Hasbrouck Heights police officer involved in a crash off Route 17 last night was hospitalized overnight for observation but appeared fine — except for a severe cut on his head, police told CLIFFVIEW PILOT this morning. Brian Donohue went in and out of consciousness and was taken to Hackensack University Medical Center after his cruiser crashed into a light pole that wasn’t working in a parking lot on the highway’s southbound side just south of Teterboro Airport around 11:50 p.m., Detective Sgt. Michael Colaneri said. Donohue — a 14-year department veteran known for, among oth…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Teaneck, NJ
Breaking News
Teaneck police charge two in shooting Teaneck police charge two in shooting Teaneck police charge two in shooting
Teaneck police charge two in shooting YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Two New York men are charged with trying to kill a man in a shooting last night that followed a chase that began on Route 4, Teaneck police said this morning. The target of the shooting told police the incident began when both men began following him “for an unknown reason” while was he was at the Garden State Plaza earlier in the day, Detective Lt. Andrew McGurr said. Around 7 p.m., both began chasing him on foot from Route 4, leading him to jump into a car occupied by a couple he knows and their 2-year-old child, McGurr said. That’s when one of the two assailan…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cresskill-Closter, NJ
Breaking News
Dirty doctors, organized crime fueling prescription drug and heroin abuse in N.J., investigation finds Dirty doctors, organized crime fueling prescription drug and heroin abuse in N.J., investigation finds Dirty doctors, organized crime fueling prescription drug and heroin abuse in N.J., investigation finds
Dirty doctors, organized crime fueling prescription drug and heroin abuse in N.J., investigation finds (via NJ.com) The rapid rise of prescription drug and heroin abuse in New Jersey is being fueled by shady, black-market entrepreneurs and corrupt doctors, some of whom have ties to organized crime, the State Commission of Investigation said in a report…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
Breaking News
Wood-Ridge detective breaks up fight, finds cocaine, paraphernalia Wood-Ridge detective breaks up fight, finds cocaine, paraphernalia Wood-Ridge detective breaks up fight, finds cocaine, paraphernalia
Wood-Ridge detective breaks up fight, finds cocaine, paraphernalia YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Wood-Ridge police detective who stepped in to break up a fight between a couple found the man carrying cocaine, a scale and 120 small bags used to package the drug, police said. Detective Joseph Biamonte saw the two arguing in a parked car on Wood-Ridge Avenue yesterday morning, Det. Joseph Rutigliano Jr. said. He called for backup, and both he and Lt. Michael O’Donnell found 22-year-old John Berman of Wood-Ridge carrying the contraband, Rutigliano said. Berman was being held on $7,500 bail in the Bergen County Jail, charged with various drug counts, he said, a…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Hackensack officials violated OPRA, must surrender redevelopment records, Bergen judge rules Hackensack officials violated OPRA, must surrender redevelopment records, Bergen judge rules Hackensack officials violated OPRA, must surrender redevelopment records, Bergen judge rules
Hackensack officials violated Opra, must surrender redevelopment records, Bergen judge rules YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Ruling that Hackensack officials violated New Jersey’s Open Public Meetings Law through “delay and obstruction,” a Bergen County judge ordered them to turn over documents detailing how much the city paid to law firms, consultants and others to pursue plans for a downtown redevelopment zone. City officials illegally withheld those records from 62-64 Main Street LLC, a company that owns property in the zone, through “baseless denial,” Assignment Judge Peter Doyne said in a decision released yesterday. The requests were “clear and unambiguous,” and both city officials…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Teaneck, NJ
Breaking News
Shots fired in Teaneck, police seek suspects Shots fired in Teaneck, police seek suspects Shots fired in Teaneck, police seek suspects
Shots fired in Teaneck, police seek suspects YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Teaneck police investigating a report of shots fired found shell casings and were still looking for suspects tonight, CLIFFVIEW PILOT has learned. Witnesses reported seeing three people flee on foot into Englewood after four to six shots were fired on Arlington Avenue near Route 4, a block or so from the Church of St. Anastasia. No injuries were reported. YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Two New York men are charged with trying to kill a man in a shooting last night that followed a chase that began on Route 4, Teaneck police said this morning. READ MORE…. A couple of …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
Breaking News
Child, 2, left alone in smoke-filled apartment, mother arrested hours later Child, 2, left alone in smoke-filled apartment, mother arrested hours later Child, 2, left alone in smoke-filled apartment, mother arrested hours later
Child, 2, left alone in smoke-filled apartment, mother arrested hours later BEYOND BERGEN: A Roselle Park woman was charged with child endangerment after she left her 2-year-old daughter home alone today in an apartment with a lighted stove and a plugged-in iron — both of which had ignited clothes — authorities said. The building superintendent told investigators he entered the apartment with a social worker and another nearby civilian after seeing smoke just before 10 o’clock this morning. He found the child lying on a bed next to smoldering clothes and a hot, plugged-in iron, and saws more clothing that caught fire on top of a lighted stove and filled the kitch…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Federal trial beginning for North Bergen man accused of molesting woman on plane to Newark Federal trial beginning for North Bergen man accused of molesting woman on plane to Newark Federal trial beginning for North Bergen man accused of molesting woman on plane to Newark
Federal trial beginning for North Bergen man accused of molesting woman on plane to Newark A Turkish national who lives in North Bergen and runs a service company that includes the St. Regis Hotel in New York and El Mexicano restaurant in Paterson among its affiliations could face life in prison if he is convicted of sexually assaulting a woman on a Newark-bound flight, in a trial about to begin in federal court in Newark. Bawer Aksal has insisted that what went on in the air between Phoenix and Newark was consensual sex. Federal authorities, however, accused the 49-year-old ethnic Kurd of an “egregious act in a commercial airliner with over 100 potential witnesses.” Accordin…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Police: Fort Lee disabilities advocate, 64, pinned on scooter after going wrong way Police: Fort Lee disabilities advocate, 64, pinned on scooter after going wrong way Police: Fort Lee disabilities advocate, 64, pinned on scooter after going wrong way
Police: Fort Lee disabilities advocate, 64, pinned on scooter after going wrong way A 64-year-old Fort Lee woman known in town for her advocacy efforts on behalf of those with disabilities struck and pinned in her wheelchair last night by a sedan driven by a 70-year-old motorist, sending her to the hospital with serious injuries, police said this afternoon. Barbara Lebow, who for years has advocated for greater accessibility and compliance with ADA regulations, was “on the wrong side of the driveway” heading out of the A&P Supermarket parking lot on Lemoine Avenue when she was struck by a 2012 Buick Lacrosse driven by Frank S. Davis of Englewood CliffsFort Lee Police C…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Hackensack veteran, 6 others charged with selling drugs to fellow vets Hackensack veteran, 6 others charged with selling drugs to fellow vets Hackensack veteran, 6 others charged with selling drugs to fellow vets
Hackensack veteran, 6 others charged with selling drugs to fellow vets A Hackensack man and six other military veterans with access to two VA medical centers in New Jersey were arrested this morning by federal agents of charges of peddling heroin, crack and other drugs to fellow vets. Five of them were arrested this morning at a VA medical center in Lyons facility, another at a similar facility in East Orange facility and the seventh at home, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman said. Federal court appearances are scheduled for this afternoon in Newark. Those arrested and charged include 55-year-old Robin Merritt of Hackensack, who the government said sold heroin…

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