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
Maywood hit-and-run driver mows down pedestrian Maywood hit-and-run driver mows down pedestrian Maywood hit-and-run driver mows down pedestrian
Maywood hit-and-run driver mows down pedestrian CVP EXCLUSIVE: Maywood police are looking for a red vehicle that struck and severely injured a pedestrian before taking off last night. James Gilly, 51, of Ridgefield Park was crossing East Pleasant Avenue near Elm Street — less than two blocks from police headquarters — when he was struck just before 10 o’clock. The driver “stopped, backed up and drove around the victim after hitting him,” Maywood Police Chief David Pegg told CLIFFVIEW PILOT this morning. It was last seen headed north on Elm Street, he said. The Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office Fatal Accident Unit and the county She…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
Breaking News
Authorities hunt Cliffside Park bank robber Authorities hunt Cliffside Park bank robber Authorities hunt Cliffside Park bank robber
Authorities hunt Cliffside Park bank robber YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A robber in a hooded windbreaker pulled a black handgun on bank employees in Cliffside Park, emptied two cash drawers and took off yesterday afternoon. The robber hit the Bank of New Jersey on Palisade Avenue just after 4:20 p.m., then took off out the back door, running east on Jersey Avenue toward Gorge Road, Cliffside Park Police Chief Donald Keane said this morning (see photo, above). He was described as 20 to 30 years old, thinly built — about 5-foot-8 and 140 pounds — and wearing the windbreaker in yesterday’s rain. Borough detectives were reviewing surveil…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Rutherford, NJ
Breaking News
High carbon monoxide levels force evacuation of Carlstadt Holiday Inn Express High carbon monoxide levels force evacuation of Carlstadt Holiday Inn Express High carbon monoxide levels force evacuation of Carlstadt Holiday Inn Express
High carbon monoxide levels force evacuation of Carlstadt Holiday Inn Express YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: More than 60 guests of a Carlstadt hotel were relocated and a staffer hospitalized last night after a malfunctioning pool heater spewed carbon monoxide at extremely dangerous levels. Police said CO readings reached around 300 parts per million — three times the amount necessary to cause intense headaches and confusion and enough to cause brain damage or death if exposed to for more than an hour. Police and firefighters got the call just after 10 p.m. from the Holiday Inn Express at 100 Paterson Plank Road, just off Route 17, on a report of activated CO detectors. …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Quick verdict in 16 pounds of pot case out of Paramus Quick verdict in 16 pounds of pot case out of Paramus Quick verdict in 16 pounds of pot case out of Paramus
Quick verdict in 16 pounds of pot case out of Paramus ONLY ON CLIFFVIEW PILOT: Jurors in Hackensack needed less than a day’s worth of deliberations to convict a Florida man today of bringing 16 pounds of marijuana to a Paramus restaurant parking lot for sale to a buyer who turned out to be an undercover detective. In a case where the evidence — more than a dozen shrink-wrapped bricks of pot — were displayed in the courtroom, a defense attorney for Yordanis Reyes argued that his client ended up at the Chili’s Restaurant at the Garden State Plaza in Paramus by accident on March 30, 2012. The lawyer, Sam DeLuca, tried pinning the rap on a man w…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Teaneck, NJ
Breaking News
Hudson detective charged in fatal shooting home after posting $1 million bail Hudson detective charged in fatal shooting home after posting $1 million bail Hudson detective charged in fatal shooting home after posting $1 million bail
Hudson detective charged in fatal shooting home after posting $1 million bail (via NJ.com) The Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office detective in the road rage murder of a Maryland man Saturday night is home this morning after posting a $1 million bond yesterday, the detective’s attorney confirmed this morning. The detective, Joseph Walker, 40, of Eastampton, was charged Saturday night with…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Valley, NJ
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Wyckoff increases charges, bail, against Teaneck man in Bergen burglary spree Wyckoff increases charges, bail, against Teaneck man in Bergen burglary spree Wyckoff increases charges, bail, against Teaneck man in Bergen burglary spree
Wyckoff increases charges, bail, against Teaneck man in Bergen burglary spree Charges brought today by Wyckoff police against a jailed Teaneck man boosted the burglary “solve” rate in parts of Bergen County – along with his bail. Shakir Q. Major already was facing burglary charges out of Cresskill, Tenafly and Franklin Lakes when Wyckoff Detective Sgt. Soto tied him to a Feb. 11 break-in on Highview Drive, in which jewelry, electronics and gift cards valued at $26,850 were reported stolen. He’d apparently used the gift cards to buy clothing, Wyckoff Police Chief Benjamin Fox said this morning. Burglary and theft charges filed by Fox’s department today hiked Major’s…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Totowa test prep company owner facing deportation for stealing exam questions Totowa test prep company owner facing deportation for stealing exam questions Totowa test prep company owner facing deportation for stealing exam questions
Totowa test prep company owner facing deportation for stealing exam questions As federal authorities continue to search for her husband, the co-owner of a former Totowa test-preparation business yesterday was sentenced to time served for secretly recording medical licensing exam questions. Egika Kuka – who was extradited in October after fleeing the country — also is expected to be deported to her native Latvia. Kuka pleaded guilty in December to two counts of a federal indictment charging her with conspiracy to commit mail fraud and wire fraud, and cooperated with the government in its case against her ex-husband, Eihab Suliman, who ran the Optima University test …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Hung jury in rape trial of Palisades Park former mob associate Hung jury in rape trial of Palisades Park former mob associate Hung jury in rape trial of Palisades Park former mob associate
Hung jury in rape trial of Palisades Park former mob associate ONLY ON CLIFFVIEW PILOT: The trial of a former mob associate from Palisades Park charged with rape ended in a hung jury yesterday. Bergen County prosecutors can now look to retry 73-year-old Angelo “Ken” Wedra, try to negotiate a plea deal or drop the case. Wedra, who on Monday was taken from the county courthouse in Hackensack to Holy Name Medical Center in Teaneck after complaining of “angina-like” symptoms, expressed relief after the jurors told Presiding Superior Court Judge Liliana DeAvila-Silebi just before 6 p.m. that they were unable to unanimously decide his guilt or innocence. …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paramus, NJ
Breaking News
Investigator, convict testify against Florida man in 16-pound pot deal Investigator, convict testify against Florida man in 16-pound pot deal Investigator, convict testify against Florida man in 16-pound pot deal
Investigator, convict testify against Florida man in 16-pound pot deal ONLY ON CLIFFVIEW PILOT: The attorney for a Florida man charged with trying to sell 16 pounds of marijuana to an undercover detective told jurors yesterday that it wasn’t his client’s drugs. But the man he put the finger on testified that he didn’t see the pot trucked up to New Jersey until the day of the deal. Questioned by Assistant Bergen County Prosecutor James Santulli, Alejandro Barcena said defendant Yordanis Reyes supplied the marijuana. Barcena, who testified against Reyes in exchange for a flat five-year prison sentence, said he didn’t see the pot before March 30, 2012 — the day…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Valley, NJ
Breaking News
Prosecutors charge 2 men in heroin overdose death of Emerson woman Prosecutors charge 2 men in heroin overdose death of Emerson woman Prosecutors charge 2 men in heroin overdose death of Emerson woman
Prosecutors charge 2 men in heroin overdose death of Emerson woman Bergen County prosecutors today charged two men with causing the death of an Emerson heroin addict by giving her the fatal dose. Christopher Benvenuto, 27, of Old Tappan (above, right) and Jessie Kurzweel, 26, of Closter (left) were being held on $150,000 bail each in the Bergen County Jail, charged under a decades-old law that allows authorities to hold drug suppliers criminally liable when a user dies. Besides prosecuting the defendants for their alleged involvement in 47-year-old Doreen Leach’s death, Molinelli said he hoped the case sends a clear message to street-level dealers that t…

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