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
Judge orders Lodi woman jailed after exchange with defense attorney Judge orders Lodi woman jailed after exchange with defense attorney Judge orders Lodi woman jailed after exchange with defense attorney
Judge orders Lodi woman jailed after exchange with defense attorney ONLY ON CLIFFVIEW PILOT: An angry judge in Hackensack revoked bail, ordering that a Lodi woman who participated in a family-run drug ring be jailed, after her lawyer insisted that he wait two more months before sentencing her to a plea-bargained 10 years in prison. Following an exchange with defense attorney Remi L. Spencer, Superior Court Judge Patrick J. Roma directed Bergen County Sheriff’s officers to take Lydia Cruz — who had been free on $700,000 bail since January 2012 — back to the county jail until a May 3 sentencing on drug and money-laundering convictions. “I just don’t know wh…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
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Saddle Brook police: Ex-con charged in bank robbery had money, gun Saddle Brook police: Ex-con charged in bank robbery had money, gun Saddle Brook police: Ex-con charged in bank robbery had money, gun
Saddle Brook police: Ex-con charged in bank robbery had money, gun YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Jorge L. Rodriguez was carrying the money stolen at gunpoint this morning from a Saddle Brook bank — along with the handgun used and other evidence — when borough police grabbed the ex-con just hours  later, CLIFFVIEW PILOT has learned. Saddle Brook police were waiting when Rodriguez, 45, of South River, left a house less than two blocks from the TB Bank at 4:30 and took him into custody without incident, Saddle Brook Police Chief Robert Kugler told CLIFFVIEW PILOT at 7:50 tonight. The 6-foot-1, 225-pound Rodriguez, whose arrest was announced on CLIFFVIEW PILOT min…

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Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
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Fair Lawn officer: Thank you, everyone, for Collura tribute Fair Lawn officer: Thank you, everyone, for Collura tribute Fair Lawn officer: Thank you, everyone, for Collura tribute
Fair Lawn officer: Thank you, everyone, for Collura tribute AN OFFICER WRITES: On behalf of Fair Lawn PBA Local 67, words cannot express our sincere gratitude to our brothers and sisters in blue, emergency services, family members, neighbors, friends, and elected officials who attended our special memorial for fallen Fair Lawn Police Officer MaryAnn Collura on Wednesday, April 17. Fair Lawn Officer Mike O’Brien The outpouring of support comforted many of us on that distressing day and we wholeheartedly appreciate the Memorial wreaths, Police Honor Guards, Motorcycle Squads, and those who took time out of their day to be a part of something so i…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Pascack Valley, NJ
Breaking News
Hillsdale woman, 81, plows car into garage Hillsdale woman, 81, plows car into garage Hillsdale woman, 81, plows car into garage
Hillsdale woman, 81, plows car into garage YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A neighbor pulled an 81-year-old Hillsdale woman out after she hit the gas pedal instead of the brake and plowed her car into her garage. The Drake Drive resident was taken by the Washington Volunteer Ambulance Corps to a local hospital with what police described as injuries that weren’t life-threatening. STORY / PHOTOS: Boyd A. Loving Hillsdale’s chief construction code official was at the scene, concerned over the structural integrity of the home. The woman’s car demolished several support beams, as well as the garage’s back wall. Firefighters from Hillsdal…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
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Police: Woman rams boyfriend’s car outside Alicia Keys’ Englewood mansion Police: Woman rams boyfriend’s car outside Alicia Keys’ Englewood mansion Police: Woman rams boyfriend’s car outside Alicia Keys’ Englewood mansion
Police: Woman rams boyfriend’s car outside Alicia Keys’ Englewood mansion YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A 38-year-old Englewood woman repeatedly rammed her pickup truck into a car driven by her on-again, off-again boyfriend outside Alicia Keys’s mansion, known as Bubble Hill, city police said. Sonora Walters was being held on $55,000 cash bail in the Bergen County Jail, charged with aggravated assault with a weapon. Her 30-year-old sometime beau was hospitalized with injuries that police said weren’t life-threatening after yesterday morning’s incident. Keys was in Chicago, where she finished the American leg of her “Set the World on Fire” last night. She begins a s…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Breaking News
Saddle Brook police arrest suspect in armed bank robbery Saddle Brook police arrest suspect in armed bank robbery Saddle Brook police arrest suspect in armed bank robbery
Saddle Brook police arrest suspect in armed bank robbery ANOTHER CVP SCOOP: Saddle Brook police this afternoon arrested a suspect in this morning’s robbery of a TD Bank branch who they said was hiding out in a house behind the nearby Long Memorial Elementary School. YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Jorge L. Rodriguez was carrying the money stolen at gunpoint from a Saddle Brook bank — along with the handgun used and other evidence — when borough police grabbed the ex-con this afternoon, CLIFFVIEW PILOT has learned. READ MORE…. They also recovered the clothes he was wearing — a key factor, given that a dye pack from the stolen cash exploded while he wa…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgewood, NJ
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Runaway car takes out Ridgewood streetlight Runaway car takes out Ridgewood streetlight Runaway car takes out Ridgewood streetlight
Runaway car takes out Ridgewood streetlight ANOTHER CVP SCOOP: The driver and passenger of a 4-door Mitsubishi sedan escaped serious injury during a Friday morning crash in Ridgewood. The Mitsubishi jumped a curb and knocked down a streetlamp on Garber Square near Library Place. Both occupants were safely removed and attended to by members of the Ridgewood Volunteer Ambulance Corps and EMTs from the Ridgewood Fire Department. Fire Department personnel also attended to a minor fluid spill. Crews from PSE&G were called to attend to the demolished streetlamp and exposed electrical wires. The accident was investigated by Ridg…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hyde Park, NY
Breaking News
FBI: Bank robber strikes 2nd time after failed attempt FBI: Bank robber strikes 2nd time after failed attempt FBI: Bank robber strikes 2nd time after failed attempt
FBI: Bank robber strikes 2nd time after failed attempt DO YOU KNOW THIS MAN? The FBI this morning released a surveillance photo of a man who robbed an Essex County bank an hour after he botched a holdup at another. The first attempt, at a Wells Fargo on Pleasant Valley Way in West Orange, failed around 5 o’clock last night. An hour later, he robbed a PNC Bank on Bloomfield Avenue in Caldwell, the FBI said. He’s described as black, thin, about 5’6″ – 5’8″ and 140 pounds, in his late 20s and clean shaven, wearing sunglasses and gloves. Anyone with information on either holdup is urged to contact West Orange police, Caldwell police or the FB…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Judge: Lyndhurst coach’s sentence for sex with student isn’t enough Judge: Lyndhurst coach’s sentence for sex with student isn’t enough Judge: Lyndhurst coach’s sentence for sex with student isn’t enough
Judge: Lyndhurst coach’s sentence for sex with student isn’t enough YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A judge in Hackensack reluctantly sentenced former Lyndhurst High School football coach Scott Rubinetti  this morning to five years probation and prohibited him from teaching or coaching anywhere in the United States, not even as a volunteer, for having sex with a 17-year-old student and getting her to lie to investigators about it. “Sometimes I make my decision based on what the victim wants to do,” Superior Court Judge Patrick J. Roma said. “In this case, the victim has agreed to this sentence. “I’m not sure it’s enough.” Roma’s remarks followed a tearful state…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Prosecutor: Getaway driver in Wyckoff jewelry store holdup ‘just as responsible’ Prosecutor: Getaway driver in Wyckoff jewelry store holdup ‘just as responsible’ Prosecutor: Getaway driver in Wyckoff jewelry store holdup ‘just as responsible’
Prosecutor: Getaway driver in Wyckoff jewelry store holdup ‘just as responsible’ ONLY ON CVP: The getaway driver in a frightening Wyckoff jewelry store holdup that turned into a high-speed chase in which two police cars were struck “is just as responsible as the men who went into the store,” a Bergen County prosecutor told jurors in Hackensack yesterday. “It’s called accomplice liability,” Assistant Bergen County Prosecutor Kenneth Ralph said. Perhaps Adrian Hicken “had the most important job of all” in the more than $1 million robbery of Hartgers Jewelers, Ralph added. Hicken’s three Brooklyn accomplices “were relying on him to get them away when they were done,” h…

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