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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Rutherford, NJ
Breaking News
Saudino: $59.9M budget is $250,000 less than Donovan proposed Saudino: $59.9M budget is $250,000 less than Donovan proposed Saudino: $59.9M budget is $250,000 less than Donovan proposed
Saudino: $59.9M budget is $250,000 less than Donovan proposed YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Bergen County Sheriff Michael Saudino this morning proposed a $59.9 million budget to the county freeholders featuring what he called “unprecedented cuts” totaling more than a quarter-million dollars less than what county Executive Kathleen Donovan proposed for his office. The overall $59,895,336 plan is also down $281,000 over last year’s actual budget for his office. Saudino called his blueprint “the product of sound analysis.” “As we have every year, we laid it all out on the table,” he said. “I asked my budget committee to get creative and identify areas that…

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Lyndhurst, NJ
Breaking News
Woman arrested in bogus report of shooting at Bergen Community College Woman arrested in bogus report of shooting at Bergen Community College Woman arrested in bogus report of shooting at Bergen Community College
Woman arrested in bogus report of shooting at Bergen Community College UPDATE: A 23-year-old student who sent Bergen Community College at the Meadowlands into lockdown after fabricating a story about seeing a man shoot himself initially stuck to the account when questioned by police before eventually admitting the hoax, CLIFFVIEW PILOT has learned. Stephanie Ballinger of Lyndhurst “insisted that she saw someone shoot himself outside the school,” Bergen County Police Chief Brian Higgins told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. “She said she put her head down when it happened and didn’t know whether he drove off or stayed in the parking lot,” Higgins said. “This went on for qu…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paramus, NJ
Breaking News
Accused thief charged in $45,000 Paramus jewelry heists Accused thief charged in $45,000 Paramus jewelry heists Accused thief charged in $45,000 Paramus jewelry heists
Accused thief charged in $45,000 Paramus jewelry heists YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Paramus detectives today charged a Long Island man jailed with his girlfriend in a spree of jewelry store thefts with taking a $15,000 two-crat diamond from the Diamond Exchange on Route 17 and a $30,000 watch from the Jewelry Exchange on Route 4. Daniel J. Cimolonski, who turned 32 two weeks ago, was arrested on drug charges Wednesday along with 35-year-old Kristie Laird, in Suffolk County. Paramus detectives already zeroed in on Cimolonski as a suspect in both the March 22 heist from the Diamond Exchange and the watch theft the following day. They had fingerpri…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Monsey, NY
Breaking News
NJ court tosses $7.7 million judgment for woman who fell in Jersey City PATH station NJ court tosses $7.7 million judgment for woman who fell in Jersey City PATH station NJ court tosses $7.7 million judgment for woman who fell in Jersey City PATH station
NJ court tosses $7.7 million judgment for woman who fell in Jersey City PATH station YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A state appeals court overturned a jury’s $7.7 million personal injury award to a doctor who fell while walking through a Jersey City PATH station, finding that the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey has a “lesser duty of care” when people aren’t getting on or off or riding trains. The trial judge in Mandal v. Port Authority was wrong in instructing jurors to apply the “utmost caution” standard when all the woman was doing was walking through the station, the judges ruled. In short: The level of duty owed to commuters depends on the location and circumstan…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Jurors to continue deliberating fate of former Ramsey officer in child-sex trial Jurors to continue deliberating fate of former Ramsey officer in child-sex trial Jurors to continue deliberating fate of former Ramsey officer in child-sex trial
Jurors to continue deliberating fate of former Ramsey officer in child-sex trial UPDATE: Jurors in the child sex abuse trial of former Ramsey police officer Jeffrey Kimmel adjourned this afternoon without reaching a verdict after reviewing a pair of video-recorded interviews of the girl by investigators. Kimmel, 49, of Oakland, could face up to 10 years in prison if convicted of sexual assault and child endangerment. He remains held without bail in the Bergen County Jail. Jurors began deliberating in Hackensack late yesterday following closing arguments by Assistant Bergen County Prosecutor Demetra Maurice and defense attorney Craig Swenson. Swenson focused his stat…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Hackensack sergeant beaten in brawl with street heavyweights Hackensack sergeant beaten in brawl with street heavyweights Hackensack sergeant beaten in brawl with street heavyweights
Hackensack sergeant beaten in brawl with street heavyweights YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Three Hackensack men with a combined weight of just over 1,000 pounds tangled with city police in a crime-ridden neighborhood, with one of them beating a sergeant with his own baton and ripping off the brass buckle of his gun belt. The same combatant later lowered his head while handcuffed at police headquarters and battered down a door, Police Director Michael Mordaga told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. “I’m an animal! I’m an animal!” yelled 24-year-old Walter Alston (above) of Hackensack as he swung the baton at Sgt. Ben Marino on Anderson Street around 10 o’clock last night, …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Fort Lee police: Fairview men in heroin bust couldn’t account for baseball cards Fort Lee police: Fairview men in heroin bust couldn’t account for baseball cards Fort Lee police: Fairview men in heroin bust couldn’t account for baseball cards
Fort Lee police: Fairview men in heroin bust couldn’t account for baseball cards YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Two Fairview men who couldn’t account for where they got a complete set of Topps 1987 Major League Baseball cards were arrested after Fort Lee police reported finding 20 packets of heroin in their car. Detective T.J. Cullen of the department’s Anti-Crime Unit said he was on patrol on Bergen Boulevard Tuesday afternoon when he pulled over a Ford Mustang driven by 32-year-old Derek Morin for speeding. While asking Morin for his driver’s license, Cullen said he “observed an orange syringe cap on the floorboard” and “knew from experience” what it was. Morin and his p…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Pascack Valley, NJ
Breaking News
Westwood crash leaves car on its side Westwood crash leaves car on its side Westwood crash leaves car on its side
Westwood crash leaves car on its side ONLY ON CVP: Firefighters removed the 52-year-old driver of a car through the windshield of an SUV knocked on its side in a collision in Westwood this afternoon before she was taken to a local hospital, borough police told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. The woman ‘had driven the Honda CRV on Madison Avenue into the middle of the intersection of Irvington Street when it was struck by a silver Acura headed west around 3:10, Westwood Sgt. Michael Pontillo said. The impact sent the Honda spinning before it landed on its side, he said. A 19-year-old woman in the Acura was taken to the hospital, as well, w…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Bergen jury lets Brooklyn man walk in gun possession case Bergen jury lets Brooklyn man walk in gun possession case Bergen jury lets Brooklyn man walk in gun possession case
Bergen jury lets Brooklyn man walk in gun possession case ONLY ON CVP: Jurors this afternoon cleared a Brooklyn man of charges connected with two handguns Mahwah police found in a rental truck he was riding in. “As far as this court is concerned, you are free to go,” Superior Court Judge James J. Guida told Anthony McDonald. “You’re not getting your guns back,” the judge added jokingly. “They’re not yours.” McDonald, who took a bus to court in Hackensack from Brooklyn every day, said the trips were worth it. “I’m just glad it’s over,” he told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. “I want to thank Mr. Contaldi. He did a great job.” Defense attorney Joseph Conta…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
Breaking News
Mahwah woman interrupts sexual assault of daughter, 7 Mahwah woman interrupts sexual assault of daughter, 7 Mahwah woman interrupts sexual assault of daughter, 7
Mahwah woman interrupts sexual assault of daughter, 7 YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A manhunt that began when a Mahwah woman found a man sexually assaulting her 7-year-old daughter ended with an arrest at a Rockland County movie theater, Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said this afternoon. Tomas Marin-Martinez, 49, of Mahwah was grabbed by Suffern police at the Lafayette Theater after an alert was broadcast Monday night, the prosecutor said, adding that a tipster disclosed his location. The girl’s mother called Mahwah police around 8 p.m after she “entered her residence and found Marin-Martinez in the process of sexually assaulting her …

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