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 Executive Donovan unveils ‘gimmick free’ budget Bergen Executive Donovan unveils ‘gimmick free’ budget Bergen Executive Donovan unveils ‘gimmick free’ budget
Bergen Executive Donovan unveils ‘gimmick free’ budget Bergen County Executive Kathleen A. Donovan tonight introduced what she called an “austere, gimmick free and realistic” proposed 2013 county budget that, if approved by the county freeholders, would boost taxes for the average household by $29.18. (Average = $324,000) No one would be laid off under the budget that Donovan first presented to the freeholders during a work session in Hackensack this afternoon. In fact, more government jobs will be created: $2.7 million allocated in the proposed spending plan would go toward salaries and benefits for staff members of the county’s new Juveni…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paramus, NJ
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Armed robbers hold up Paramus T-Mobile on Route 17 Armed robbers hold up Paramus T-Mobile on Route 17 Armed robbers hold up Paramus T-Mobile on Route 17
Armed robbers hold up Paramus T-Mobile on Route 17 YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Three men, one of them armed, held up a T-Mobile store on Route 17 at Park Place in Paramus after tying up employees this afternoon. The robbers burst in around 2 o’clock, witnesses said. Sources said they took proceeds from the register, cash from a safe and cell phones after binding the workers. They then fled north on Route 17 in a gray, four-door Acura. Plainclothes Paramus police officers canvassed several nearby businesses. STORY, PHOTO by Boyd A. Loving

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Molinelli putting county sheriff in charge of regional SWAT, splitting K-9 duties Molinelli putting county sheriff in charge of regional SWAT, splitting K-9 duties Molinelli putting county sheriff in charge of regional SWAT, splitting K-9 duties
Molinelli putting county sheriff in charge of regional SWAT, splitting K-9 duties MAJOR CVP EXCLUSIVE: Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli today gave the county police six months to join a regional SWAT team that will be headed by the county sheriff, while giving both county agencies three months to implement a plan dividing specific K-9 duties between them, CLIFFVIEW PILOT has learned. What that means for the long-term future of the Bergen County Police SWAT team was an open question this afternoon. For the next six months, however, the BCPD unit remains the first responder to a hostage or other SWAT-related emergency in those towns that don’t have their own sq…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Sleeping driver at Little Ferry 7-Eleven found with handgun Sleeping driver at Little Ferry 7-Eleven found with handgun Sleeping driver at Little Ferry 7-Eleven found with handgun
Sleeping driver at Little Ferry 7-Eleven found with handgun ANOTHER CVP SCOOP: Two Little Ferry police officers who found a drunken driver passed out behind the wheel with the motor running and the car in drive early this morning turned up a semiautomatic handgun with the serial number filed off, Chief Ralph Verdi said. Sgt. Joseph Gutierrez was alerted to the silver Acura as he pulled into the lot of the 7-Eleven on Liberty Street around 3:20 a.m. Inside were two men, both sleeping — one in the back seat and the other behind the wheel, Verdi said. Gutierrez got out, looked inside and saw the car in drive, so he put it into park, the chief said.…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
‘Baby-faced killer’ murder trial opens in Hackensack ‘Baby-faced killer’ murder trial opens in Hackensack ‘Baby-faced killer’ murder trial opens in Hackensack
‘Baby-faced killer’ murder trial opens in Hackensack EXCLUSIVE (ONLY ON CVP): “Baby-faced killer” Fernando Carrero Jr. deliberately gunned down an aspiring police officer in Lyndhurst during an unprovoked attack, a prosecutor said during openings in his murder trial today. Danielle Grootenboer (CLIFFVIEW PILOT PHOTOS: Mary K. Miraglia) “He looks pleasing on the outside,” Assistant Bergen County Prosecutor Danielle Grootenboer told jurors in Hackensack. “Some might even say he looks too young to have committed the crimes he’s accused of.” A defense attorney countered that Jose Hall was killed during a struggle with Carrero, who was 17 at …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Driver hangs upside down after car flips in Fair Lawn Driver hangs upside down after car flips in Fair Lawn Driver hangs upside down after car flips in Fair Lawn
Driver hangs upside down after car flips in Fair Lawn YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A driver hung by his seatbelt and shoulder harness for about 20 minutes while emergency workers freed him after his car hit a utility pole in Fair Lawn. The driver was headed east on Morlot Avenue, between Route 208 and McKinley Street, this morning when he lost control of his Kia Soul, hit the pole and flipped. Members of the  Fair Lawn Fire Department and Rescue Squad freed the driver, who was taken to St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center in Paterson. Also responding were Fair Lawn police and the St. Joseph’s paramedic unit. A tow truck operator righted the…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Bergenfield, NJ
Breaking News
Molinelli offers school shooter training videos, security reviews Molinelli offers school shooter training videos, security reviews Molinelli offers school shooter training videos, security reviews
Molinelli offers school shooter training videos, security reviews PUBLIC SAFETY: A schoolteacher at New Milford High School who knows a security door must be kept closed opens it after a students pleads to be let in. Before anyone can react, the student is quickly followed in by a gunman who opens fire, killing the teacher and several students. The dramatization is part of an instructional video that Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said he expects to begin distributing to school districts for teachers and others who use school buildings. That and another video — for those law enforcement officers who could face gun violence in schools — were …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Underage sex trial date set for former Mahwah minister Underage sex trial date set for former Mahwah minister Underage sex trial date set for former Mahwah minister
Underage sex trial date set for former Mahwah minister EXCLUSIVE (ONLY ON CVP): A former Mahwah minister serving an eight-year prison sentence for having sex with an underaged member of his congregation will be retried next month in connection with another alleged assault on a teenaged congregant. A Feb. 19 date was quickly and quietly set yesterday for 47-year-old Curtis Franklin as his daughter sat crying in the Hackensack courtroom. Franklin’s first case, in 2011, ended in a mistrial after a juror not only researched its history online — in volations of court rules — but then shared the findings with fellow jurors through printouts. In t…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
Breaking News
Englewood police: ATM skimmers tied to $1M in thefts Englewood police: ATM skimmers tied to $1M in thefts Englewood police: ATM skimmers tied to $1M in thefts
Englewood police: ATM skimmers tied to $1M in thefts ANOTHER EXCLUSIVE (ONLY ON CVP): Working with Citibank investigators, Englewood police busted a pair of ATM “skim crew” thieves, turning up 80 cards created with victims’ accounts, more than $10,000 in cash and various disguises that they said the two undocumented Romanian immigrants used as they swept through the area withdrawing money. One of the suspects, 52-year-old Constantin Ginga (INSET: left), was pulling cash from an ATM at the Citibank Financial Center on Engle Street at the time, while his alleged accomplice,  Marius Gheorghe Cotiga, 34 (right), waited behind the wheel of a getaw…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Monsey, NY
Breaking News
Former Rutgers star Kenny Britt wanted by the law again Former Rutgers star Kenny Britt wanted by the law again Former Rutgers star Kenny Britt wanted by the law again
Former Rutgers star Kenny Britt wanted by the law again Bayonne’s Kenny Britt could be in trouble with the law yet again: Jersey City police said they want to question the former Rutgers star, now a Tennessee Titan, about his role in an incident that left a friend stabbed and a gunshot fired through a window. In just over three years since he was drafted, the former Rutgers start has run into problems with police in Hoboken, Bayonne, Glen Ridge, Elizabeth and elsewhere. The incidents have involved speeding in his Porsche, eluding police, resisting arrest and ducking traffic court on a variety of other violations. He even met with NFL Commiss…

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