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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Lyndhurst, NJ
Breaking News
Lyndhurst High School representing Bergen in today’s Consumer Bowl Lyndhurst High School representing Bergen in today’s Consumer Bowl Lyndhurst High School representing Bergen in today’s Consumer Bowl
Lyndhurst High School representing Bergen in today’s Consumer Bowl SHOUT OUT: Lyndhurst High School represents Bergen County in today’s North Regional High School Consumer Bowl title playoff, taking on six other teams — including Secaucus High School — in the competition organized by the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs. The field: ·        From Bergen County: Lyndhurst High School ·        From Essex County: Irvington High School ·        From Hudson County: Secaucus High School ·        From Morris County: Randolph High School ·        From Passaic County: Passaic County Technical Institute ·        From Sussex County: Newton High Scho…

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Northern Highlands, NJ
Breaking News
Accused Oakland bank robber once taunted police nationwide Accused Oakland bank robber once taunted police nationwide Accused Oakland bank robber once taunted police nationwide
Accused Oakland bank robber once taunted police nationwide CVP EXCLUSIVE: For years, John Edward Stevens taunted authorities — calling and telling them “You’ll never catch me” while robbing nearly two dozen banks across the country — before they put him in prison for 25 years. Yesterday, a Waldwick police sergeant grabbed the recently-paroled Stevens after police said he robbed the TD Bank branch in Oakland at gunpoint of $4,000. Stevens, 59,  who holed up in Brooklyn after being released two weeks ago, was charged with several counts, including various weapons and eluding offenses, after Waldwick Sgt. Robert Woessner pulled over his getaway car an…

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Northern Highlands, NJ
Breaking News
Notorious bank robber jailed on $500,000 bail in Oakland holdup Notorious bank robber jailed on $500,000 bail in Oakland holdup Notorious bank robber jailed on $500,000 bail in Oakland holdup
Notorious bank robber jailed on $500,000 bail in Oakland holdup CVP EXCLUSIVE: Authorities tonight confirmed CLIFFVIEW PILOT‘s report today that the 59-year-old ex-con arrested and charged in this morning’s bank robbery in Oakland is John E. Stevens, who was released from a New York prison two weeks ago after serving 25 years for no fewer than 22 bank robberies nationwide. Stevens, who’d been holed up in a Brooklyn apartment, was charged with several counts, including various weapons and eluding charges, after Waldwick Sgt. Robert Woessner pulled over his getaway car and found a TD Bank bag with $4,000 and a handgun inside, Sgt. Douglas J. Moore told CL…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Pascack Valley, NJ
Breaking News
Police hunt stolen car driver who attacked Montvale jogger, stole gas Police hunt stolen car driver who attacked Montvale jogger, stole gas Police hunt stolen car driver who attacked Montvale jogger, stole gas
Police hunt stolen car driver who attacked Montvale jogger, stole gas YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A manhunt is under way for a motorist who got out of a stolen car and attacked a jogger in Montvale before swiping gasoline from a Ramsey service station on Route 17 a short time later. It was just after noon yesterday when the 51-year-old jogger from River Vale was nearly struck by a blue Subaru Outback (LICENSE PLATE: A66-ALZ) reported stolen from Ramsey Subaru at the corner of Middletown Road and East Grand Avenue. The jogger, who had to be taken to The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood, told officers he exchanged words with the driver before continuing to run. At …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Former Englewood basketball phenom Sean Banks jailed yet again Former Englewood basketball phenom Sean Banks jailed yet again Former Englewood basketball phenom Sean Banks jailed yet again
Former Englewood basketball phenom Sean Banks jailed yet again ANOTHER CVP EXCLUSIVE: It may be hard for some to fathom, but onetime pro basketball sure thing Sean Anthony Banks is back in the Bergen County Jail for the fourth time in four months — just days after being indicted on other charges — as he awaits trials that could send him to state prison for a long time. News of the Englewood pot bust comes on the same day that associates of his from the notorious “James Bond Gang” are in court in Hackensack. Banks, 28, was free on $15,000 bail after a March pot arrest when he was picked up Friday on similar charges. Just three days earlier, a grand …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Bergenfield, NJ
Breaking News
Missing New Milford woman found dead in her apartment Missing New Milford woman found dead in her apartment Missing New Milford woman found dead in her apartment
Missing New Milford woman found dead in her apartment YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: The body of 68-year-old Alice Klee of New Milford, who’d been missing since Feb. 8, was found in her apartment by her landlord, Police Chief Frank Papapietro said this morning. “He located the body on Friday under a pile of trash, clothing and blankets between the bed and window,” Papapietro said. The Bergen County Medical Examiner determined that Klee died of natural causes and that no foul play was involved, the chief said. It’s unclear how long Klee had been there. “You’d have to see the place to understand how big of a mess it was,” Papapietro told CLIFFVIE…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
Breaking News
Cliffside Park officer talks disturbed woman with knife out of apartment Cliffside Park officer talks disturbed woman with knife out of apartment Cliffside Park officer talks disturbed woman with knife out of apartment
Cliffside Park officer talks disturbed woman with knife out of apartment YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Cliffside Park police officer talked an emotionally disturbed woman out of her apartment last night after she barricaded the door and held a knife to her throat. The woman was taken to Bergen Regional Medical Center for an evaluation after Officer John O’Toole convinced her to open the door of the Anderson Avenue apartment and give him the knife. Cliffside Park police went to investigate a 911 hangup call around 5:10 last night and found family members who said the 43-year-old woman had locked the door and was holding a knife to her throat, Police Chief Donald Ke…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cresskill-Closter, NJ
Breaking News
Englewood police: Illegal of nearly 30 years sexually assaults girl, 16 Englewood police: Illegal of nearly 30 years sexually assaults girl, 16 Englewood police: Illegal of nearly 30 years sexually assaults girl, 16
Englewood police: Illegal of nearly 30 years sexually assaults girl, 16 YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: An undocumented Colombian immigrant who’d flown under the radar for nearly 30 years was arrested by Englewood police after they found him in the bed of a 16-year-old girl who they said he sexually assaulted at the rooming house where he was staying. Patrol Officers Dona Nidelko and Byron Agauyo arrested 55-year-old Gabriel Cordoba before dawn this morning after the girl told them that he sneaked into her bedroom, got into her bed and sexually assaulted her, Detective Captain Timothy Torell told CLIFFVIEW PILOT tonight. Cordoba, who’s never been in trouble before, h…

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Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Breaking News
‘Sold out’ Bergen gun buyback: 1,307 weapons turned in ‘Sold out’ Bergen gun buyback: 1,307 weapons turned in ‘Sold out’ Bergen gun buyback: 1,307 weapons turned in
‘Sold out’ Bergen gun buyback: 1,307 weapons turned in YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Bergen County’s two-day gun buyback program was such a success — producing 1,307 weapons in all — that Sheriff Michael Saudino had to call Prosecutor John L. Molinelli yesterday for more money. “We ran out,” Saudino told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. “It reached the point where we actually had to turn people away.” And while some questioned whether such programs remove guns from the streets, the sheriff said that wasn’t the point. “This was all about safety, it was all voluntary,” he said. “The economy has something to do with it, but these were people concerned about their c…

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Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Breaking News
Police find missing Fair Lawn autistic boy, 11 Police find missing Fair Lawn autistic boy, 11 Police find missing Fair Lawn autistic boy, 11
Police find missing Fair Lawn autistic boy, 11 ANOTHER CVP SCOOP: Authorities just before 6:30 tonight found a missing autistic boy from Fair Lawn, thanks to a spcial wristband transmitter,  CLIFFVIEW PILOT has learned. The 11-year-old youngster was last scene earlier this afternoon on a bicycle at his home on Manor Avenue, law enforcement sources told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. The boy was wearing a Project Lifesaver bracelet, they said. The rapid-response Project Lifesaver International program is designed to locate adults and children who have gone missing due to Alzheimer’s, autism, Down Syndrome, dementia and other related disorders. P…

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