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
Bergen couple used Sandy charity to party, pay bills, state officials allege Bergen couple used Sandy charity to party, pay bills, state officials allege Bergen couple used Sandy charity to party, pay bills, state officials allege
Bergen couple used Sandy charity to party, pay bills, state officials allege YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: State authorities have sued the operators of a purported Superstorm Sandy charity who they said steered donations into their personal accounts and stole the name of New Jersey First Lady Mary Pat Christie’s Hurricane Sandy Relief charity to do so. Although the sham Hurricane Sandy Relief Foundation claims all donations provide “immediate” relief to Sandy victims, the group has only given out $1,650 in gift cards during the three and a half months of its existence – an amount representing less than one percent of the $631,000 HSRF has raised in donations, state author…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Thief admits role in $1.5 million Hudson stolen check scheme Thief admits role in $1.5 million Hudson stolen check scheme Thief admits role in $1.5 million Hudson stolen check scheme
Thief admits role in $1.5 million Hudson stolen check scheme YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Newark man today admitted his role in the widespread theft of blank checks from Jersey City, Hoboken and Bayonne residents that were turned into $1.5 million in deposits at 27 bank branches. The 26-month scheme centered on a postal carrier who pinched boxes of blank checks that he passed on to others who converted them to cash, federal authorities said. The six men and two women involved included Kurtis Steele, 26, who pleaded guilty this afternoon in federal court in Newark to conspiracy to commit bank fraud after being caught on surveillance tape depositing the…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Valley, NJ
Breaking News
NJ bill would protect emergency squads from being sued NJ bill would protect emergency squads from being sued NJ bill would protect emergency squads from being sued
NJ bill would protect emergency squads from being sued YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: The New Jersey Senate Law & Public Safety Committee unanimously approved a bill today that would make protect paid first aid, ambulance or rescue companies from certain civil damages. Under current New Jersey law, non-volunteer first aid, ambulance or rescue companies are not provided immunity from civil damages as the result of an act or the omission of an act committed while in training for or in the rendering of intermediate life support services in good faith. “Emergency squads can be empowered knowing that they will not be sued for doing whatever it takes …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Rutherford, NJ
Breaking News
Rutherford police chase down suspected burglar Rutherford police chase down suspected burglar Rutherford police chase down suspected burglar
Rutherford police chase down suspected burglar YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: An ex-con led officers on a chase through several backyards and over fences before they ran him down, Rutherford police said. An alert neighbor called police to report seeing a man head into an unoccupied house on Washington Avenue yesterday afternoon, walk out with a white plastic bag filled with something and put it into a car. The man then went back inside as the car drove off, Rutherford Police Lt. Patrick Feliciano told CLIFFVIEW PILOT early this afternoon. Police were waiting as 42-year-old Gregory Perry emerged from a rear door and took off, “scaling multi…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Bergen prosecutor gives county whopping $19.4 million in seized funds Bergen prosecutor gives county whopping $19.4 million in seized funds Bergen prosecutor gives county whopping $19.4 million in seized funds
Bergen prosecutor gives county whopping $19.4 million in seized funds EXCLUSIVE REPORT: Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli and his staff have saved county taxpayers $19.4 million in the decade that Molinelli has held the job, thanks to the use of criminal forfeiture funds, records show. That includes $1.4 million for the installation of cameras in municipal police vehicles, $900,000 toward studying municipal consolidations of police departments and other agencies and $7 million toward the new county agency building. Also included is $250,00 for municipal DWI checkpoints. The prosecutor’s office helped defray the cost of some special items — among …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
Breaking News
Saddle Brook police chase down suspected car burglar Saddle Brook police chase down suspected car burglar Saddle Brook police chase down suspected car burglar
Saddle Brook police chase down suspected car burglar ANOTHER CVP SCOOP: Saddle Brook police had just watched a video supplied by a local resident of a man breaking into cars on Elm Avenue before dawn this morning when Lt. William Byrnes Jr. spotted a man who looked just like him. Before Byrnes had a chance to ask him what he was doing in the area, the man in the dark-colored hoodie took off, Chief Robert Kugler told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. Byrnes called for backup and chased him. The 6-foot, 230-pound suspect was grabbed two blocks away on Schepis Avenue by Byrnes and three fellow officers — Dave DeGennaro, Jeffrey Panagia and off-duty Officer D…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Breaking News
Fair Lawn police release more info on Monday night crash Fair Lawn police release more info on Monday night crash Fair Lawn police release more info on Monday night crash
Fair Lawn police release more info on Monday night crash YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Fair Lawn police today released additional details of a Monday night incident in which four parked cars were struck by an SUV driven by a drunken motorist. As first reported by CLIFFVIEW PILOT, several cars were struck on Chandler Drive just before 8:30 p.m. Area residents said five vehicles were hit, but Fair Lawn police today said the fifth was the driver’s 2009 Mercury, which that sustained “extensive damage to the front and side.” The driver, 32-year-old Giuseppina Ciappina from Saddle Brook, “Ciappina lost control of her vehicle while negotiating the curve […

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Wrong turn leads to Saddle Brook unlicensed driver, warrants Wrong turn leads to Saddle Brook unlicensed driver, warrants Wrong turn leads to Saddle Brook unlicensed driver, warrants
Wrong turn leads to Saddle Brook unlicensed driver, warrants YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: An illegal turn out of the Saddle Brook mall led to a rich stop for a borough police officer: The driver was unlicensed, and both she and one of her passengers were wanted on outstanding warrants. Officer Douglas Habermann was on patrol yesterday afternoon when he stopped the 2010 Nissan on Route 46 West in Elmwood Park. Haberman was talking to the driver when he spotted a tin box that turned out to contain nine Xanax pills, which none of the three occupants had a prescription for, Saddle Brook Deputy Chief Robert White said. A quick computer check turned up warr…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Breaking News
No one hurt in Fair Lawn apartment fire No one hurt in Fair Lawn apartment fire No one hurt in Fair Lawn apartment fire
No one hurt in Fair Lawn apartment fire A fire was spreading through two units of a Fair Lawn apartment building today when police and firefighters found a tenant still trying to gather his things. So they quickly escorted him out, unharmed. The blaze began in a second-floor closet and destroyed that apartment and another unit at the 92-unit Eldorado Village complex on High Street, emergency workers said. Dozens of residents who live in nine apartments in the building were evacuated after the 8 a.m. fire broke out. It wasn’t clear when all would be allowed to return. The cause wasn’t considered suspicious, authorities said.…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Bergenfield, NJ
Breaking News
New Milford woman, 68, missing since Feb. 8 New Milford woman, 68, missing since Feb. 8 New Milford woman, 68, missing since Feb. 8
New Milford woman, 68, missing since Feb. 8 HAVE YOU SEEN HER? Police are hoping someone spots 68-year-old Alice Klee of New Milford, who’s been missing nearly two weeks. “Bergen County Police did a K-9 search of the wooded area near her residence,” New Milford Police Chief Frank Papapietro said this morning. “There’s been no cell phone or bank activity.” Besides the  phone, she left behind her wallet and keys, he said. The green-eyed, blond-haired Klee lived alone and was “known to feed stray animals, such as cats and birds,” the chief said. “She has also been known to look into [D]umpsters for unknown reasons.” She was reported…

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