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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Pascack Valley, NJ
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Emerson podiatrist faces 5 years in Oxy prescription scheme Emerson podiatrist faces 5 years in Oxy prescription scheme Emerson podiatrist faces 5 years in Oxy prescription scheme
Emerson podiatrist faces 5 years in Oxy prescription scheme An Emerson podiatrist accepted a deal from prosecutors under which he’ll go to prison for no more than five years in exchange for pleading guilty to a single count of conspiring to sell high-dose Oxycodone to black-market brokers. Carnig C. Shakarjian could also be fined $250,000, lose his medical license and be barred from seeking re-instatement for five years or until his criminal sentence is complete, whichever is longer. If convicted at a trial of the most serious charge — heading a drug trafficking network — Shakarjian could have faced up to 20 years in prison. Instead, he pleaded …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Police say Fort Lee infant beaten, $1 million bail Police say Fort Lee infant beaten, $1 million bail Police say Fort Lee infant beaten, $1 million bail
Police say Fort Lee infant beaten, $1 million bail A four-month-old infant was hospitalized with severe head injuries and a man who Fort Lee police said beat the child was ordered held on $1 million bail. As of this afternoon, the infant was listed in stable condition, Fort Lee Police Chief of Police Keith Bendul said. Arrested and charged with endangerment was Jishi Yu, 39, of Center Avenue, the chief said. Fort Lee police and members of the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office Special Victims Unit arrested Yu yesterday after learning that the child had been admitted to Hackensack University Medical Center on Tuesday, Bendul said. A jud…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Rapper Juelz Santana gets probation in assault on Englewood good Samaritan Rapper Juelz Santana gets probation in assault on Englewood good Samaritan Rapper Juelz Santana gets probation in assault on Englewood good Samaritan
Rapper Juelz Santana gets probation in assault on Englewood good Samaritan EXCLUSIVE (ONLY ON CVP): A good Samaritan who tried to stop rapper Juelz Santana as he was beating his girlfriend told a judge today that he and his family had to move from their exclusive Englewood neighborhood out of fear. Santana “threatened me with death. He said he was going to kill me,” the neighbor told Superior Court Judge James Guida, who sentenced the co-founder of The Dipsets and The Skull Gang to two years’ probation today. The incident at the Brownstones at Englewood “has caused problems in my marriage [and] my personal life,” the man said through an interpreter. “I had to mo…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Bergen County administrator: Donovan won’t sign sheriff’s officers contract Bergen County administrator: Donovan won’t sign sheriff’s officers contract Bergen County administrator: Donovan won’t sign sheriff’s officers contract
Bergen County administrator: Donovan won’t sign sheriff’s officers contract YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A local judge’s decision this week doesn’t force Bergen County Executive Kathleen Donovan to begin distributing retroactive to county sheriff’s officers, contrary to another media report, Administrator Ed Trawinski said this morning. Twawinski said the report falsely suggests that Donovan must pay the retroactive raises and associated benefits for 2010 and 2011 while waiting for the state Appellate Division to hear her appeal of Superior Court Judge Joseph Conte’s ruling in Hackensack this week. Conte refused to delay his order of last month that Donovan implement …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Highlands, NJ
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Ridgewood police chase down teen driver in hit and run Ridgewood police chase down teen driver in hit and run Ridgewood police chase down teen driver in hit and run
Ridgewood police chase down teen driver in hit and run YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Ridgewood police officer chased down a teenager who took off on foot after ramming an SUV into another near his home. The Buick Enclave slammed the marked Toyota Sienna minivan on Woodland Avenue around 11 o’clock last night. Responding to several 911 calls, police learned from witnesses that the driver had taken off. The officers checked the Enclave’e registration and headed to the owner’s address — where they spotted the juvenile. He bolted and ran through several backyards before being caught. The Ridgewood Volunteer Ambulance Corps took him to The Valle…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Fake Facebook page of ex-BF gets woman arrested Fake Facebook page of ex-BF gets woman arrested Fake Facebook page of ex-BF gets woman arrested
Fake Facebook page of ex-BF gets woman arrested A 24-year-old woman was arrested on charges of creating a Facebook page in her ex-boyfriend’s name that said he liked to have sex with young boys — and his sisters. Little Falls police confirmed charging the Totowa woman with impersonation and harassment after obtaining a subpoena for the page creator’s IP address and tracing it straight to her. The 22-year-old victim reportedly called them after two of his siblings found the page, which combined his first name with the last name Syphilis. It was ironic, considering dubious reports nearly three years ago that linked social networking si…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Indictment: Mailbox thieves swiped $118,000 in checks Indictment: Mailbox thieves swiped $118,000 in checks Indictment: Mailbox thieves swiped $118,000 in checks
Indictment: Mailbox thieves swiped $118,000 in checks YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Five Paterson residents were charged with swiping more than $118,000 in checks from mailboxes throughout Passaic County and laundering the proceeeds through personal bank accounts. Attorney General Jeffrey S. Chiesa said the thefts included nearly $100,000 in unemployment checks from the state. “These defendants are charged with systematically stealing unemployment checks right from the mailboxes of the victims, who were out of work and needed the checks to pay their bills and feed their families,” said Attorney General Chiesa.  “Their alleged conduct is reprehensi…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cresskill-Closter, NJ
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Dumont pair flee burning house Dumont pair flee burning house Dumont pair flee burning house
Dumont pair flee burning house ONLY ON CVP: Two Dumont residents got out of a burning house today before a fire quickly spread. Dumont police responding to a pair of 911 calls just before noon saw smoke coming out of the Shadyside Avenue house near the Bergenfield border, Chief Brian Venezio told CLIFFVIEW PILOT this afternoon. “Both residents were on their way out the door,” the chief said. Engines from Bergenfield and New Milford, along with a ladder truck from Tenafly and a fast team from Cresskill, joined their Dumont counterparts. Dumont’s ambulance squad also responded but wasn’t needed, Venezio said. Teane…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
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Sheriff’s officers union president calls Bergen executive hypocrite Sheriff’s officers union president calls Bergen executive hypocrite Sheriff’s officers union president calls Bergen executive hypocrite
Sheriff’s officers union president calls Bergen executive hypocrite ANOTHER CVP SCOOP: The president of the Bergen County sheriff’s officers union today called Executive Kathleen Donovan a hypocrite for appealing a local judge’s ruling that she stop her refusal to pay his officers negotiated raises for 2010 and 2011. PBA Local 134 President Michael J. Doyle said neither he nor any of his officers, or their attorney, were surprised by Superior Court Judge Joseph Conte’s first decision and subsequent refusal to delay his ruling so Donovan could appeal (SEE: Bergen judge refuses to delay order that Donovan pay sheriff’s officers ) “The law is straightforwar…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Highlands, NJ
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Minor injury for Waldwick firefighter in apartment blaze Minor injury for Waldwick firefighter in apartment blaze Minor injury for Waldwick firefighter in apartment blaze
Minor injury for Waldwick firefighter in apartment blaze YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Waldwick firefighter sustained minor injuries this morning battling a two-alarm blaze in the second-floor apartment of a Waldwick home. Heavy smoke was pouring from the upstairs of the multi-family home at 87 Franklin Turnpike when firefighters arrived. The injured firefighter was transported from the scene to a local hospital by members of the Waldwick Volunteer Ambulance Corps. Although fire damage to the structure was confined to its second floor, downstairs sustained smoke and water damage. Fire units from Wyckoff and Ho-Ho-Kus assisted, as did Waldwick p…

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