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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Monsey, NY
Breaking News
New Jersey State Police ‘speeding ticket frenzy’? Nope New Jersey State Police ‘speeding ticket frenzy’? Nope New Jersey State Police ‘speeding ticket frenzy’? Nope
New Jersey State Police ‘speeding ticket frenzy’? Nope PUBLIC SAFETY: For the ninth year in a row, New Jersey State Police are NOT planning to launch a 30-day speeding-ticket frenzy this summer. If you’ve received an email saying that they are, ignore it. Better yet, tell your friends that it’s bogus. ‘Cause it is. There’s no doubt that police nationwide don’t mind motorists thinking that they’ll be out in full force as part of a dedicated campaign to snag speeders. But they wouldn’t do it the way it’s outlined in the bogus “alert,” which appears set to once again go viral as summer beckons. As one officer said tonight: “Troopers are out …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Grandmother, 49, arrested in Englewood ‘full-on family feud’ Grandmother, 49, arrested in Englewood ‘full-on family feud’ Grandmother, 49, arrested in Englewood ‘full-on family feud’
Grandmother, 49, arrested in Englewood ‘full-on family feud’ ONLY ON CLIFFVIEW PILOT: A 49-year-old grandmother was arrested on charges of assaulting police after a trio of Englewood officers walked into what one called “a full-on family feud” among nearly a dozen people over a lack of baby formula in the house. When they arrived at the Grand Avenue home in the city’s 2nd Ward on Saturday, three uniformed officers found several family members in separate dust-ups — and immediately called for reinforcements. The officers “tried not only to break up the fights going on among family members but to also shield two babies from being hurt,” Detective Cap…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cresskill-Closter, NJ
Breaking News
Fairview police hope public can ID man in street sex assault Fairview police hope public can ID man in street sex assault Fairview police hope public can ID man in street sex assault
Fairview police hope public can ID man in street sex assault HAVE YOU SEEN HIM? A woman who was sexually assaulted on a Fairview street in a pre-dawn attack captured by a surveillance camera gave police a description of her assailant that produced the sketch above. Fairview police are hoping it leads them to their suspect, who was described as Hispanic (possibly Guatemalan), about 5-foot-4 to 5-foot-6, 120 to 140 pounds, with olive skin and acne on his cheeks and black spiked hair. At the time he was wearing a light blue shirt, dark blue jeans and sneakers, the 22-year-old victim told police. Police Chief Frank DelVecchio said the assault occurre…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Tropical storm cancels Bergen police band’s popular ‘Icebreaker’ event on Hudson Tropical storm cancels Bergen police band’s popular ‘Icebreaker’ event on Hudson Tropical storm cancels Bergen police band’s popular ‘Icebreaker’ event on Hudson
Tropical storm cancels Bergen police band’s popular ‘Icebreaker’ event on Hudson An impending tropical storm scheduled to hit the area has postponed this Friday’s popular Icebreaker gathering at Ross Dock along the Hudson River at the foot of the Palisades in Englewood Cliffs. “We don’t want anyone getting wet and cold and miserable,” said Ken Porrino, a Fort Lee police sergeant and member of the event’s hosts, the Police Pipe and Drums of Bergen County. A new date will be scheduled, Porrino said this afternoon. The report from Jersey Shore Hurricane News: “Precipitation will begin to threaten Thursday evening, with the highest likelihood of showers and thundersto…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
6 released after gas explosion at Nyack College, 1 hospitalized with broken leg 6 released after gas explosion at Nyack College, 1 hospitalized with broken leg 6 released after gas explosion at Nyack College, 1 hospitalized with broken leg
6 released after gas explosion at Nyack College, 1 hospitalized with broken leg UPDATE: Six of the people who were injured in a natural gas explosion at a Nyack College building today were later released from hospitals, although a seventh — a 38-year-old student who jumped out a window after the blast — remained hospitalized with a serious leg injury, authorities said. The noontime blast blew out windows, brought emergency personnel from various agencies and put Hackensack University Medical Center’s AirMed One on standby. Although authorities feared the worst, everyone in the building at the time was quickly accounted for and a squadron of ambulances arrived quickly t…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
Breaking News
Second-story rescue of 6 in Palisades Park fire, soap-making operation suspected Second-story rescue of 6 in Palisades Park fire, soap-making operation suspected Second-story rescue of 6 in Palisades Park fire, soap-making operation suspected
Second-story rescue of 6 in Palisades Park fire, soap-making operation suspected CVP EXCLUSIVE: As flames roared below, Palisades Park firefighters rescued six people through second-floor rear windows during an overnight house fire this morning that authorities suspect may have been ignited by a soap-making operation. Police responding to the initial call around 3:15 a.m. found smoke pouring out the front entrance to the two-family house at 458 Lawn Avenue and a man hanging out a back bedroom window screaming for help, Palisades Park Police Chief Benjamin Ramos told CLIFFVIEW PILOT this morning. Five other people were inside the bedroom, the man told the officers. F…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
Breaking News
Bergen hosts unprecedented disaster drill as Super Bowl nears Bergen hosts unprecedented disaster drill as Super Bowl nears Bergen hosts unprecedented disaster drill as Super Bowl nears
Bergen hosts unprecedented disaster drill as Super Bowl nears YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: With the 2014 Super Bowl at Met-Life Stadium now less than eight months away, Bergen County Police Chief Brian A. Higgins said tonight that a 5-day “mass casualty training exercise” that began earlier this afternoon in Mahwah is believed to be the first of its complexity and size in the U.S. The exercise, being held at the Bergen County Law and Public Safety Institute in Mahwah, centers on a frightening scenario: A recreational vehicle carrying a half-ton of ammonium nitrate/fuel oil explosive and CS- 137 powder has gotten through stadium security is detonated outs…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Rutherford, NJ
Breaking News
Carlstadt police crack November 2012 business burglary Carlstadt police crack November 2012 business burglary Carlstadt police crack November 2012 business burglary
Carlstadt police crack November 2012 business burglary CLIFFVIEW PILOT SCOOP: Patience paid off for Carlstadt police when a DNA match pegged the second of two suspects in the burglary last November of a local business. Carlstadt Detective Sergeant David Smith arrested Wuilliam Herrarte, 41, at his South Bound Brook home in Somerset County today and charged him with participating in the Nov. 8, 2012 break-in at a Gotham Parkway mailing company, Chief Thomas Nielsen said. The arrest was made possible “after DNA testing on trace blood evidence collected from the scene by Bergen County Sheriff’s Office [Bureau of Criminal Identification] detectiv…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
Your Community
June 2013: Hoboken's Legendary Maxwell’s Closes The Way It Began June 2013: Hoboken's Legendary Maxwell’s Closes The Way It Began June 2013: Hoboken's Legendary Maxwell’s Closes The Way It Began
June 2013: Hoboken's Legendary Maxwell’s Closes The Way It Began YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Maxwell’s, the Hoboken restaurant with one of alternative rock’s most famous and influential back rooms in the world, will close the way it began — nearly 35 years to the day — with sets by the Bongos, the Individuals and assorted other musicians, Richard Barone told CLIFFVIEW PILOT tonight. “Maxwell’s was a one-of-a-kind venue when it first started,” Barone said. “With its all-embracing loving arms it nurtured bands and customers alike in a unique, non-aggressive, yet totally energized rockin’ kind of way, which simply defied description or duplication. “Unlike ot…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Highlands, NJ
Breaking News
Teaneck men busted by burglary task force from Bergen, Greenwich Teaneck men busted by burglary task force from Bergen, Greenwich Teaneck men busted by burglary task force from Bergen, Greenwich
Teaneck men busted by burglary task force from Bergen, Greenwich YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Two Teaneck men were collared by a special task force organized by the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office following a string of burglaries in the county and in Greenwich, CT. Task force members were watching as Shakir Major, 25, drove from Teaneck to Tenafly in the early afternoon hours of May 21, then parked near Oxford Drive, Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said this afternoon. Moments after the car pulled away, Tenafly police got a burglary call at an area residence, he said. Detectives stopped and arrested Major in Dumont a short time later, then go…

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