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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Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
Breaking News
Focus on drug-related crimes leads to Ridgefield arrests Focus on drug-related crimes leads to Ridgefield arrests Focus on drug-related crimes leads to Ridgefield arrests
Focus on drug-related crimes leads to Ridgefield arrests YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A focus on drug-related crimes has led to 28 arrests by Ridgefield police the last 18 months. A sampling of some recent busts, from Capt. Rich Besser: June 28: Patrolman Daniel Fugnitti was escorting an unruly passenger from a NJ Transit bus on Broad Avenue when he found him carrying a small amount of pot and drug parahernalia. Joseph Zovko, 32 (photos above, bottom right), Fairview was charged with possessing both and released pending a court hearing. June 19: Sgt. Robert Meurer and Patrolman Edward Schaefer, answering a suspicious car call, found 27-year-old Jo…

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Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Alert Fair Lawn resident leads police to car burglary arrests Alert Fair Lawn resident leads police to car burglary arrests Alert Fair Lawn resident leads police to car burglary arrests
Alert Fair Lawn resident leads police to car burglary arrests YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Fair Lawn resident who quickly called in a report of two suspicious bicycle riders led police to a 19-year-old man and 14-year-old boy, both of Paterson, who they said were caught with a pair of Ray-Ban sunglasses and change stolen from a parked car. The Chester Street resident had left his home but circled back around and found the pair on his property, Detective Sgt. Brian Metzler said this morning. Officers responding to the 7:14 a.m. call were given a fake name by the adult, who claimed to be 17 but was later identified as Felix Rodriguez, Metzler said. Rod…

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Bergenfield, NJ
Breaking News
Bergenfield man accused of throwing machete at police Bergenfield man accused of throwing machete at police Bergenfield man accused of throwing machete at police
Bergenfield man accused of throwing machete at police YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Bergenfield police chased a man accused of attacking his mother into the basement of her home, where they said he threw a machete at them before surrendering at gunpoint. Police went to the Graphic Boulevard home just after 10:30 last night after his mother called a mental health hotline and said 33-year-old Jean C. Midi Jr. hadn’t taken his medication, was acting “highly paranoid and agitated” and assaulted  her, Bergenfield Detective Capt. Cathy Madalone said this morning. Midi apparently injured the woman’s right hand when he tried to prevent her from leaving, M…

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Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
Breaking News
Bergen County lawman John J. Frank: a remembrance Bergen County lawman John J. Frank: a remembrance Bergen County lawman John J. Frank: a remembrance
Bergen County lawman John J. Frank: a remembrance A TRIBUTE: He was known as a cop’s cop: On Thursday, a memorial Mass will be celebrated for John J. Frank III, a former Wood-Ridge police chief, narcotics unit director for the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office and assistant director for security for the county police department, who died last Wednesday. Frank’s family was at his side during his passing following a battle with cancer. He was 66. Born in Jersey City, Frank moved with his family to Wood-Ridge as a child. After being graduated from Wood-Ridge High School in 1967, he enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps and served on active du…

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Rivertowns, NY
Breaking News
Feds charge woman with threatening letters to U.S. Supreme Court, Rutgers, others Feds charge woman with threatening letters to U.S. Supreme Court, Rutgers, others Feds charge woman with threatening letters to U.S. Supreme Court, Rutgers, others
Feds charge woman with threatening letters to U.S. Supreme Court, Rutgers, others YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: An Irvington woman was arrested at her home this morning by members of the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force on charges of mailing letters threatening bodily harm to the U.S. Supreme Court and various people at Rutgers University, the Millburn police department and elsewhere in New Jersey. Karen Waller, 50, is charged in a criminal complaint on file in U.S. District Court in Newark with one count of mailing threatening communications. She is expected to appear before a federal magistrate judge in Newark this afternoon. According to the complaint, Waller mailed more th…

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Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
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Cliffside Park director contends for video of year in Canada peoples choice awards Cliffside Park director contends for video of year in Canada peoples choice awards Cliffside Park director contends for video of year in Canada peoples choice awards
Cliffside Park director contends for video of year in Canada peoples choice awards SHOUT OUT: A Cliffside Park director whose music videos have been seen internationally has been nominated for a peoples choice award in Canada. “I’m really honored and glad that the message of love that I crafted into the piece seems to be resonating,” Christopher Henze said of the 2013 Aboriginal People’s Choice Awards nomination for Winnipeg-based recording artist Sierra Noble’s “I Can See” as Video of the Year: “The awards are fairly small scale — but not the honor or the idea that the small flame of possibility contained in the video can be fanned into a much hotter fire to warm us…

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Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Day camp bus crash in Old Tappan injures 6 children, pickup driver Day camp bus crash in Old Tappan injures 6 children, pickup driver Day camp bus crash in Old Tappan injures 6 children, pickup driver
Day camp bus crash in Old Tappan injures 6 children, pickup driver UPDATE: No children were seriously hurt when a school bus from an Old Tappan day camp rear-ended a pickup truck on Orangeburg Road late this afternoon. However, six children who complained of various pains were taken to area hospitals, Old Tappan Police Chief Thomas Shine told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. The driver of the pickup also had to be placed on a backboard and taken to the hospital, the chief said. The bus had just left nearby Camp Shalom with 43 schoolchildren — ranging in age from 5 to 12 — a camp aide and the driver when it hit the pickup as it slowed to turn into a driveway, Shine sai…

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Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
Breaking News
Three injured in Bogota crash Three injured in Bogota crash Three injured in Bogota crash
Three injured in Bogota crash Three people were reported injured in a crash that left one of the vehicles on its side, its driver trapped. Firefighters had to cut open a Nissan that was rammed by a Subaru hatchback on Palisade Avenue in order to free the female motorist. Witnesses said Bogota Fire Lt. Joe DiMauro climbed in and positioned himself to relieve pressure on the pinned woman until she could be removed. PHOTOS: Courtesy BOGOTA PD

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Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Washington Township driver, 76, smashes car into neighbor’s house Washington Township driver, 76, smashes car into neighbor’s house Washington Township driver, 76, smashes car into neighbor’s house
Washington Township driver, 76, smashes car into neighbor’s house YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A 76-year-old Washington Township man backed his car out of his driveway this morning and kept going — all the way across the street, up his neighbor’s driveway and into the house. He was taken to HackensackUMC at Pascack Vally in Westwood after complaining of knee pain, township police said. The house apparently didn’t sustain any serious structural damage, they added. However, the porch of the Fern Street home was damaged, as well as the man’s vehicle. Somehow it missed another car parked in the driveway. PHOTOS: Courtesy WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP PD

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Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
Breaking News
Meadowlands Chamber, Donovan, OEM host disaster preparedness conference Meadowlands Chamber, Donovan, OEM host disaster preparedness conference Meadowlands Chamber, Donovan, OEM host disaster preparedness conference
Meadowlands Chamber, Donovan, OEM host disaster preparedness conference YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: The Meadowlands Regional Chamber is hosting a disaster preparedness conference at Bergen Community College next week to prepare a sustainability plan that will allow businesses to keep running should a hurricane or other serious emergency occur. Set for a week from Wednesday, the event will “draw from the expertise of technology experts, insurance professionals, government officials and utility companies to assist local organizations in developing a business continuity plan in the case of an emergency, such as when the region endured devastation after Hurricane Sandy…

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