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
Englewood sex assault trial to begin after accused rejects plea deal Englewood sex assault trial to begin after accused rejects plea deal Englewood sex assault trial to begin after accused rejects plea deal
Englewood sex assault trial to begin after accused rejects plea deal EXCLUSIVE: An Englewood man charged with sexually assaulting the same woman twice in the span of five weeks rejected an 11th-hour attempt today by prosecutors in a Hackensack courtroom to secure a plea deal, insisting that he’s innocent and ready to go to trial. William Alston, 55, also is charged with violating a restraining order that authorities said the woman obtained after the alleged incidents. Assistant Bergen County Prosecutor Kristin DeMarco repeated an offer of five years in state prison, more than four of which she said Alston must serve before he’d be eligible for parole. De…

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Ridgewood, NJ
Breaking News
Driver, 22, fails sobriety test after Ridgewood crash Driver, 22, fails sobriety test after Ridgewood crash Driver, 22, fails sobriety test after Ridgewood crash
Driver, 22, fails sobriety test after Ridgewood crash YOU SAW IT HERE FIRST: A 22-year-old Fair Lawn driver whose car careened from one side of the street to the other, mounted a curb and nearly struck an office sign in Ridgewood was taken into custody after failing a field sobriety test. The incident occurred as the vehicle was headed west on Godwin Avenue at the corner of West End Avenue around 2:25 p.m. Police said the Toyota Celica GT hit the curb on the north side of the street, then crossed the center dividing line and mounted the curb and sidewalk on the south side of Godwin Avenue before crushing a shrub and coming to a stop. Ridge…

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Monsey, NY
Breaking News
Justice Dept. settles with DeCamp Bus Lines over treatment of disabled passengers Justice Dept. settles with DeCamp Bus Lines over treatment of disabled passengers Justice Dept. settles with DeCamp Bus Lines over treatment of disabled passengers
Justice Dept. settles with DeCamp Bus Lines over treatment of disabled passengers YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: New Jersey-based DeCamp Bus Lines Inc. will no longer be able to require that passengers with disabilities provide 48 hours of advance noticeto secure a wheelchair-accessible bus, under a settlement with the U.S. Justice Department. DeCamp violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and must now comply with all of the law’s requirements for accessible service, and not exclude persons with disabilities from its transportation services, the department’s Civil Rights Division announced. DeCamp “will also no longer post, distribute or publish any written materia…

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Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
Breaking News
Garfield man charged with sexually assaulting girl, 11 Garfield man charged with sexually assaulting girl, 11 Garfield man charged with sexually assaulting girl, 11
Garfield man charged with sexually assaulting girl, 11 YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A witness alerted an 11-year-old girl’s mother than the youngster was being sexually assaulted, and Garfield police quickly took a suspect into custody, Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said this afternoon. Alfonso  Salas Vazquez, 44, was being held on $150,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail, charged with aggravated sexual assault and child endangerment. Molinelli said Garfield police arrested Vazquez – who is single and works at a Moonachie bakery — within minutes of receiving the call from the girl’s mother on Monday. They immediately notified the prose…

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Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
Breaking News
Mahwah traffic stop: 2 handguns with hollow-point bullets Mahwah traffic stop: 2 handguns with hollow-point bullets Mahwah traffic stop: 2 handguns with hollow-point bullets
Mahwah traffic stop: 2 handguns with hollow-point bullets ANOTHER CVP SCOOP: A routine traffic stop by a Mahwah police officer turned up a pair of high-power handguns loaded with hollow-nosed, Chief James Batelli said early this afternoon. Officer David Vega pulled over the 1999 Kenworth tractor-trailer with Minnesota license plates for “various equipment violations” on Route 287 yesterday, Batelli said. Vega obtained permission to search the rig after learning that the driver – 32-year old Evan Walsh of Kasson, Minnesota – had an arrest record for weapons violations, the chief said. The officer found two handguns in the cab, he said: One, a G…

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Ridgewood, NJ
Breaking News
Ridgewood postal carrier nabbed by feds in multi-million-dollar refund check scheme Ridgewood postal carrier nabbed by feds in multi-million-dollar refund check scheme Ridgewood postal carrier nabbed by feds in multi-million-dollar refund check scheme
Ridgewood postal carrier nabbed by feds in multi-million-dollar refund check scheme YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Ridgewood postal carrier was among seven people charged by federal authorities this morning with a multi-million dollar scheme to collect bogus tax refunds from the government. Lourdes Ortiz, 40, surrendered to U.S. Postal Inspection Service investigators this morning and is due to be brought before a federal court judge in Newark this afternoon, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman said. Four others who also were grabbed by federal authorities also have initial appearances scheduled. Two more, both from the Bronx, remained at large this morning, Fishman said. All are c…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
PIP police radio upgrades continue with portables donated to area emergency services PIP police radio upgrades continue with portables donated to area emergency services PIP police radio upgrades continue with portables donated to area emergency services
PIP police radio upgrades continue with portables donated to area emergency services SHOUT OUT: The switch by Palisades Interstate Parkway police to a new radio system continued with the donation of several VHF portables to area emergency responders. With the PIP department’s switch to the 700mhz statewide Public Safety Interoperable Communications (PSIC) platform, the previous VHF frequency has been reallocated for local police to communicate with the interstate parkway department and one another. It will be used “for all agencies who respond on mutual aid to the Palisades Interstate Park Commission properties [on] land, sea, and air; police, fire or EMS from New Jersey,…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Highlands, NJ
Breaking News
Ramsey police chief: Faulty dishwasher likely cause of fire that killed woman, 47 Ramsey police chief: Faulty dishwasher likely cause of fire that killed woman, 47 Ramsey police chief: Faulty dishwasher likely cause of fire that killed woman, 47
Ramsey police chief: Faulty dishwasher likely cause of fire that killed woman, 47 UPDATE: A faulty dishwasher appears to be the cause of a fire that claimed the life of a 47-year-old Ramsey woman, Police Chief Bryan Gurney said this afternoon. The Rockland County Medical Examiner tomorrow will conduct an autopsy on Sallie Brady, whose body was brought to Good Samaritan Hospital in Suffern after emergency workers found her on a couch in her living room before dawn this morning. “At this time, there does not appear to be any criminal culpability involved,” said Gurney (above), confirming an earlier CLIFFVIEW PILOT report that neither the arson nor her death appeared susp…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Rape trial of former Palisades Park mob associate begins Rape trial of former Palisades Park mob associate begins Rape trial of former Palisades Park mob associate begins
Rape trial of former Palisades Park mob associate begins ONLY ON CLIFFVIEW PILOT: A woman who’d just been released from the hospital following a car crash didn’t scream because her children would hear her when former mob associate Ken Wedra of Palisades Park came into her bedroom, opened his pants and raped her on a March night a dozen years ago, a prosecutor told jurors in Hackensack yesterday. Holding her hands over her head, Wedra overpowered the woman, who kept quiet “out of fear her children might witness what was going on,” Assistant Prosecutor David Calviello said during opening arguments in Wedra’s rape trial. Even afterward, the woman sa…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cresskill-Closter, NJ
Breaking News
Nasty heat wave headed our way Nasty heat wave headed our way Nasty heat wave headed our way
Nasty heat wave headed our way WEATHER ALERT: Cue Glenn Frey: The heat is on! After a chance of showers and thunderstorms this afternoon — when temperatures will climb into the upper 70s-to-low 80s at the coast and mid-to-upper 80s inland — most of the Garden State will experience the first heat wave of the season tomorrow through Sunday. “Maximum temperatures are forecast to be around 90 degrees at most locations, with heat index values rising into the 90 to 95 range each afternoon,” the National Weather Service advises in a Hazardous WeNastather Outlook. As depicted in the “Heat Index” map above — how warm it feels…

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