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
Ruckus follows conviction of Mahwah minister for having sex with underage congregant Ruckus follows conviction of Mahwah minister for having sex with underage congregant Ruckus follows conviction of Mahwah minister for having sex with underage congregant
Ruckus follows conviction of Mahwah minister for having sex with underage congregant YOU READ IT HERE FIRST:  Supporters of a Mahwah minister convicted in Hackensack this morning of having sex with an underage congregant beginning when she was 12 had to be removed from the Bergen County Courthouse by sheriff’s officers after they began shouting in the hallway outside the courtroom. Curtis Franklin’s wife, Lora, emerged from the courtroom in tears after the verdict was read and her husband was taken away by Bergen County Sheriff’s officers. However, other supporters began yelling. “This is a courtroom. This is a public building,” a Bergen County Sheriff’s officer said to…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Carlstadt police charge man in knife threat over deli chicken order Carlstadt police charge man in knife threat over deli chicken order Carlstadt police charge man in knife threat over deli chicken order
Carlstadt police charge man in knife threat over deli chicken order YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Carlstadt police charged a busboy with aggravated assault following a knife attack at a Hackensack Street delicatessen that had run out of chicken. Borough Officers Jason Colombo and Scott Tronziger, responding to the Daily Deli last night, grabbed two men, while their colleagues from East Rutherford grabbed a third, Carlstadt Police Chief Thomas Nielsen said this morning. According to witnesses, Armando Vincente-Gonzalez and two of his friends went to the deli and asked for chicken but were told there wasn’t anymore, the chief said. Vincente-Gonzalez, 22, of Eas…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgewood, NJ
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Driver From Mahwah Charged In Hit-Run Outside Ridgewood Mini Mart Driver From Mahwah Charged In Hit-Run Outside Ridgewood Mini Mart Driver From Mahwah Charged In Hit-Run Outside Ridgewood Mini Mart
Driver From Mahwah Charged In Hit-Run Outside Ridgewood Mini Mart Ridgewood police charged a Mahwah motorist with leaving the scene of an accident after her car sideswiped one driven by a man who was trying to stop her. Stefanie Pennachio, 41, said her car door hit one driven by the person trying to stop her "in a physically aggressive way" as she backed out of a southbound Route 17 Exxon on the Run with her young son in the car on Monday (April 1). The other driver told police he thought that she was intoxicated. Pennachio said police ended up giving her a ticket for careless driving and leaving the scene of an accident.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Fort Lee pedestrian safety plan wrong, victim’s family says Fort Lee pedestrian safety plan wrong, victim’s family says Fort Lee pedestrian safety plan wrong, victim’s family says
Fort Lee pedestrian safety plan wrong, victim’s family says A VICTIM’S FAMILY WRITES: My uncle, Gerard “Jerry” DeAngelis, a 10-year resident of the Malcolm Towers in Fort Lee, was hit by a car on January 12, 2013 while crossing Anderson Avenue on his way to mass at the Church of the Madonna. Jerry (above) died from his injuries at Hackensack Medical Center several hours later. The woman driving the car that hit him told investigators she never saw him, and the evidence at the scene corroborates her account. The only witnesses to the accident were traveling 3-4 car lengths behind the driver and saw him clearly before he was struck. In fact, the w…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paramus, NJ
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Bank robber gets lengthy prison sentence in terrifying Hudson holdup Bank robber gets lengthy prison sentence in terrifying Hudson holdup Bank robber gets lengthy prison sentence in terrifying Hudson holdup
Bank robber gets lengthy prison sentence in terrifying Hudson holdup YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A judge today sentenced an ex-con from West New York to 17½ in federal prison for the frightening holdup of a Weehawken bank and its customers . Maximo Castro, 32, was convicted in December 2011 by jurors in Trenton of the $5,700 robbery just seven months earlier. Castro (the former Carl Worthington) entered the TD Bank branch on Park Avenue on May 31, 2011, waved a gold gun and “made threatening statements” while throwing a black bag at a teller with orderes to fill it. Besides taking $5,100 from the bank, authorities said, he stole nearly $600 from two customer…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Donovan: Bergen County won’t be liable for prosecutor’s new policing plan Donovan: Bergen County won’t be liable for prosecutor’s new policing plan Donovan: Bergen County won’t be liable for prosecutor’s new policing plan
Donovan: Bergen County won’t be liable for prosecutor’s new policing plan YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Bergen County Executive Kathleen A. Donovan today said she is notifying all municipal governments in Bergen County that the county wouldn’t assume any liability or risk if Prosecutor John L. Molinelli’s plan to have county police join a regional SWAT team headed by the county sheriff and split specific K-9 duties goes into effect. She also said she would order all county agencies to ignore the prosecutor’s directive. Donovan said she “doubts the lawfulness” of Molinelli’s Bergen County Law Enforcement Services Review Board Law Services Plan, which was issued last mon…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Driver, 90, plows brand-new car into PIP convenience store Driver, 90, plows brand-new car into PIP convenience store Driver, 90, plows brand-new car into PIP convenience store
Driver, 90, plows brand-new car into PIP convenience store YOU SAW IT HERE FIRST: A brand-new Honda driven by a 90-year-old man who had his 80-year-old wife as a passenger plowed into a Palisades Interstate Parkway service station convenience store in Englewood Cliffs this morning. Neither occupant was injured seriously, said PIP Lt. Michael J. Coppola, the department commander. The Queens couple was taken to Hackensack University Medical Center, both with head injuries, by EMS. Neither injury appeared serious. Martin Mermelstein had just bought the Civic and stopped at the gas pump for fuel — with his wife, Lorraine — at the southbound Sunoco …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Bus driver arrested in Bergen baseball attack on rival Bus driver arrested in Bergen baseball attack on rival Bus driver arrested in Bergen baseball attack on rival
Bus driver arrested in Bergen baseball attack on rival YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A shuttle bus driver was arrested by Bergen County Police moments after an incident in which a rival driver said he was threatened with a baseball bat on Route 4 in Paramus. Ariel Paulino of Spanish Transportation was released on a summons to appear in Superior Court tomorrow on charges of illegal weapons possession and making terroristic threats following yesterday’s 6 p.m. incident. “The bat was secured as evidence,” said BCPD Chief Brian Higgins. Higgins said his officers responded to a call from a driver for Genesis Bus Lines and found both buses — which oper…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Rutherford, NJ
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Carlstadt license-plate reader turns up revolver, hollow-point bullets in Teaneck man’s car Carlstadt license-plate reader turns up revolver, hollow-point bullets in Teaneck man’s car Carlstadt license-plate reader turns up revolver, hollow-point bullets in Teaneck man’s car
Carlstadt license-plate reader turns up revolver, hollow-point bullets in Teaneck man’s car CLIFFVIEW PILOT EXCLUSIVE: An automated license plate reader that picked off a car with an expired registration on Route 17 south led to the discovery by Carlstadt police of a .38-caliber revolver and100 rounds of hollow-point bullets in the trunk. Officer James Winant said he stopped the car around 4 p.m. yesterday and immediately spotted a small amount of marijuana in plain view. After obtaining the driver’s consent to search the vehicle, Winant reported finding the revolver in the trunk, along with two boxes of the illegal ammo, Detective John Cleary said today. “He said he bought th…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
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Englewood police hunt street robbery crew Englewood police hunt street robbery crew Englewood police hunt street robbery crew
Englewood police hunt street robbery crew YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Englewood police are hunting down a robbery crew that targets Hispanic male laborers and most recently claimed two victims yesterday — sending one of them to the hospital. A 27-year-old resident said he was walking home from his job at a local restaraunt when the gang of four “jumped and assaulted him” in the Depot Square Park playground just before 4 a.m., Detective Capt. Tim Torell told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. “He fought them off before they could take any valuables, but he sustained significant injuries and was transported to Englewood Hospital for treatment,” the capt…

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