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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Northern Highlands, NJ
Breaking News
No bail for notorious bank robber in Oakland holdup No bail for notorious bank robber in Oakland holdup No bail for notorious bank robber in Oakland holdup
No bail for notorious bank robber in Oakland holdup YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A federal judge this afternoon ordered that notorious bank robber — who once taunted authorities while holding up nearly two dozen banks across the country before they put him in prison for 25 years — be held without bail in connection with a $4,658 Oakland bank robbery last month. John Edward Stevens, 59, who holed up in Brooklyn after being released from prison only two weeks earlier, is charged with several counts, including bank robbery and various weapons and eluding offenses. Stevens was arrested after Waldwick Sgt. Robert Woessner pulled over his getaway car…

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Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
Breaking News
Free personal safety training for high school students offered by Bergen County PD Free personal safety training for high school students offered by Bergen County PD Free personal safety training for high school students offered by Bergen County PD
Free personal safety training for high school students offered by Bergen County PD PUBLIC SAFETY: The Bergen County Police Department is offering a two-part personal safety training course for high school students this week and next that includes instruction in self-defense. The purpose is “to empower high school students by building knowledge, awareness and confidence,” the department said in a news release. The safeguards and tips will “give students the tools to protect themselves and make informed decisions.” the department said in a news release. The first is a lecture on how to be vigilant and aware of surroundings. The second involves hands-on demonstration o…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Jurors weighing fate of Hackensack firefighter in child sex trial Jurors weighing fate of Hackensack firefighter in child sex trial Jurors weighing fate of Hackensack firefighter in child sex trial
Jurors weighing fate of Hackensack firefighter in child sex trial ONLY ON CLIFFVIEW PILOT: “I hate myself,” a 40-year-old Hackensack firefighter is heard on a recorded phone call, admitting to the mother of a 13-year-old girl he’s accused of sexually abusing that he did it. It’s a key piece of evidence that jurors are weighing during deliberations in his trial today. Defense attorney Angela Rodriguez told the jurors during closing arguments  in Hackensack that the recording – which she said was made without David Fernandez’s knowledge – was “coerced and [made] under duress.” Superior Court Judge James J. Guida explained, however, that only one party nee…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Rutherford, NJ
Breaking News
Neighbor’s call brings Wood-Ridge chief, officers, leads to 3 arrests Neighbor’s call brings Wood-Ridge chief, officers, leads to 3 arrests Neighbor’s call brings Wood-Ridge chief, officers, leads to 3 arrests
Neighbor’s call brings Wood-Ridge chief, officers, leads to 3 arrests YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A home burglary call brought an array of area police officers — including Wood-Ridge Police Chief Joseph T. Rutigliano — leading to the immediate capture of two Hudson County men and the subsequent arrest of a woman who they said peeled out in what was supposed to be the getaway car. A Wood-Ridge resident called police around 1 o’clock Monday afternoon to report the Sixth Street break-in. Rutigliano said he was joined in flooding the area by Detective Lt. John Korin, Lieutenants Michael O’Donnell and Scott Drotos, Detective Joseph Biamonte and officers from Carlsta…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgewood, NJ
Breaking News
Ceiling falls at former Ridgewood sporting goods store Ceiling falls at former Ridgewood sporting goods store Ceiling falls at former Ridgewood sporting goods store
Ceiling falls at former Ridgewood sporting goods store YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: What originally went out as a report of a partial building collapse at the former Ridgewood sporting goods store once known as “Bernard’s” turned out to be large chunks of a sub-roof and drop ceiling that fell into the vacant storefront. Village police, firefighters and EMS workers rushed to the site at Oak Street — the former home to Village Sports Center — after a dispatcher received a 911 call just before 5:30 tonight. Arriving units saw mounds of wood and plaster through the front windows of the single-story structure before determining what happened. They br…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
Breaking News
Wild about nothing: Prince Harry hits the Jersey Shore Wild about nothing: Prince Harry hits the Jersey Shore Wild about nothing: Prince Harry hits the Jersey Shore
Wild about nothing: Prince Harry hits the Jersey Shore WHAT WE THINK: Jersey Shore residents rolled out the red carpet, as it were, for Prince Harry, who got the guided tour from Gov. Christie of area devastation by Hurricane Sandy today. What purpose it served New Jersey was never made clear, though. The British prince’s brief walking tour included fewer than a dozen homes in upscale Mantoloking, which saw more than 500 ravaged by the storm. On the flip side, he got a boardwalk look at Seaside Heights, where demolition began today on the Jetstar roller coaster — an iconic image of the storm’s impact on one of the Northeast’s most identifiabl…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
Breaking News
How Englewood police smashed brothel, drug den in senior citizens complex How Englewood police smashed brothel, drug den in senior citizens complex How Englewood police smashed brothel, drug den in senior citizens complex
How Englewood police smashed brothel, drug den in senior citizens complex INSIDE THE STORY: A 75-year-old man and 66-year-old woman terrorized fellow residents of an Englewood senior housing complex – turning their apartments into a brothel and drug den that drew undesirables from throughout the city — until police teamed up with the Housing Authority and its law-abiding tenants to take back the building, Police Chief Arthur O’Keefe told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. O’Keefe (above) said he stepped in after attending a packed tenants meeting in March, during which dozens of seniors in the 152-unit Vincente K. Tibbs Building on West Street complained of having to share hallway…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
Breaking News
Fugitive accused of sexually assaulting Elmwood Park girls caught in Pennsylvania Fugitive accused of sexually assaulting Elmwood Park girls caught in Pennsylvania Fugitive accused of sexually assaulting Elmwood Park girls caught in Pennsylvania
Fugitive accused of sexually assaulting Elmwood Park girls caught in Pennsylvania YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A man accused of sexually abusing two girls in Elmwood Park — one 9, the other 7 — was arrested in Pennsylvania by detectives from the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Special Victims Unit and Elmwood Park police following a week-long manhunt. John Armfield, 26, who used to live in Elmwood Park, fled New Jersey “after being confronted about the sexual assault allegations [two weeks ago] by family members of the victims,” Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said today. Detectives from Molinelli’s office and Elmwood Park police arrested Armfield at a relative’s home…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Pascack Valley, NJ
Breaking News
Florida man, 77, charged with sexually abusing River Vale girl, 11 Florida man, 77, charged with sexually abusing River Vale girl, 11 Florida man, 77, charged with sexually abusing River Vale girl, 11
Florida man, 77, charged with sexually abusing River Vale girl, 11 YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A 77-year-old Florida man in town to visit family in River Vale was arrested and charged with sexually abusing an 11-year-old girl. Bernard Starr, a married retiree who turned 77 last Wednesday, was being held on $400,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail, charged with aggravated sexual assault and child endangerment. Starr, of Port St. Lucie, was arrested after the state Division of Child Protection and Permanency contacted Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli’s Special Victims Unit, Molinelli said this morning. An arraignment is set for next Tuesday afternoo…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
Breaking News
Feds arrest jet parts supplier from Edgewater, 73 Feds arrest jet parts supplier from Edgewater, 73 Feds arrest jet parts supplier from Edgewater, 73
Feds arrest jet parts supplier from Edgewater, 73 YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Federal agents last night arrested a 73-year-old Ridgefield aircraft parts supplier from Edgewater on charges of laundering scrapped jet engine parts. Gideon Vaisman, the sole owner of Tara Technology Corp., is tentatively due for a first appearance in federal court in Newark this afternoon, the government said this morning. A co-conspirator, Carmine Coviello of Suffern, already has pleaded guilty and could receive leniency in exchange for help in prosecuting Vaisman, who is charged with conspiring to commit wire fraud. From April 2005 until his arrest, Vaisman o…

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