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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Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
Breaking News
Accused Mahwah burglar caught in underwear is son of Ramapough Indian shot by park ranger Accused Mahwah burglar caught in underwear is son of Ramapough Indian shot by park ranger Accused Mahwah burglar caught in underwear is son of Ramapough Indian shot by park ranger
Accused Mahwah burglar caught in underwear is son of Ramapough Indian shot by park ranger YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A 23-year-old man arrested in his underwear after he threw a rock through the window of a home and tussled with an officer is the son of Emil Mann, a Ramapough Indian who was fatally shot by a state park ranger in 2006, CLIFFVIEW PILOT has learned. Ronnie Mann and his family won $2.1 million in compensatory damages and $150,000 in punitive damages in a civil suit that followed the acquittal of former Park Police Officer Chad Walder of reckless manslaughter in a criminal trial. Newspaper photos at the time showed Ronnie Mann in court at Walder’s trial and during the…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
Breaking News
Bogota police, firefighters bring Christmas surprise to girl with leukemia Bogota police, firefighters bring Christmas surprise to girl with leukemia Bogota police, firefighters bring Christmas surprise to girl with leukemia
Bogota police, firefighters bring Christmas surprise to girl with leukemia ONLY ON CVP: Santa pulled up to 9-year-old Juliana Guerra’s house atop a Bogota fire truck, escorted by two borough police cruisers, and for a little while tonight, the wide-eyed, smiling innocent forgot about the adult form of leukemia that’s forced her into chemo and, soon, radiation therapy. “She has a very long road ahead of her,” Bogota Detective Geoffrey Cole told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. “We just wanted to put a smile on her face.” That they did, with lights and sirens — and, of course, Christmas gifts — when they arrived at Juliana’s Pompton Plains home just after dark. The little angel…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Man gets six years behind bars in Fort Lee heroin bust Man gets six years behind bars in Fort Lee heroin bust Man gets six years behind bars in Fort Lee heroin bust
Man gets six years behind bars in Fort Lee heroin bust ONLY ON CLIFFVIEW PILOT: Alexis Cartagena’s friend offered him some money to help him transport a package from New York City to New Jersey, but then the Fort Lee police came along. Cartagena, who had no criminal record up to then, pleaded guilty in Superior Court in Hackensack this morning to possession of “a first-degree weight” of heroin in Fort Lee on Sept. 29, 2011, and was sentenced to six years in state prison. Cartagena, his head down, didn’t address Judge Edward Jerejian, who told him he had “the benefit of a very generous plea offer.” Heroin is a “scourge on society,” Jerejian …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Rutherford, NJ
Breaking News
High-end tire thief nailed by Bergen County, Saddle Brook police High-end tire thief nailed by Bergen County, Saddle Brook police High-end tire thief nailed by Bergen County, Saddle Brook police
High-end tire thief nailed by Bergen County, Saddle Brook police ANOTHER CVP SCOOP: An ex-con from Lodi known for specializing in high-end tire and rim thefts is back behind bars after Bergen County and Saddle Brook police detectives caught him unloading a set at a Route 17 repair lot in Carlstadt last night. Christopher J. Mason, 48, immediately owned up to thefts, which he said occurred in Totowa, as well as to several others in Bergen County, New York and Massachusetts — all to support a cocaine habit, BCPD Lt. James Mullin told CLIFFVIEW PILOT this afternoon. The hunt for a suspect began when Saddle Brook Police turned up surveillance video of a ma…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Heroin mill found on quiet Cliffside Park street, $6 million worth seized Heroin mill found on quiet Cliffside Park street, $6 million worth seized Heroin mill found on quiet Cliffside Park street, $6 million worth seized
Heroin mill found on quiet Cliffside Park street, $6 million worth seized YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: NJ State Police said their detectives were waiting when a New York City man walked out of a Cliffside park house with two kilos of heroin strapped around his waist, packaged like thick shoe insoles. Could they have been smuggled into the U.S. that way? That’s the question investigators from the NJSP’s Drug Trafficking North Unit want to know. Their investigators, along with the New York Drug Enforcement Task Force (NYDETF), staked out the house — in a working-class neighborhood between Anderson Avenue and Bergen Boulevard — yesterday. That’s when Julio Cesar Mend…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
Breaking News
Doomsday in Bergen: New single from up-and-coming locals Doomsday in Bergen: New single from up-and-coming locals Doomsday in Bergen: New single from up-and-coming locals
Doomsday in Bergen: New single from up-and-coming locals IN TUNE: We got Doomsday today — as in: “Seaside Lights,” a new CD single by Bergen County’s Doomsday Diaries to benefit Seaside Heights victims of Hurricane Sandy. Paired with the song “Summer of Love,” the new tune is a taste of the band’s first full-length CD, to be released early next year. With more than a hint of early Alice Cooper and other pre-metal music, “Seaside Lights” recalls summers spent at the popular Shore resort by founding brothers Jason and Sean Sproviero (aka J Von Doom and The Evil Twin) of Hasbrouck Heights, with vocals by Jessica Kenny of Garfield. Originally a s…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Valley, NJ
Breaking News
Haworth officer picks fugitive off quiet side street Haworth officer picks fugitive off quiet side street Haworth officer picks fugitive off quiet side street
Haworth officer picks fugitive off quiet side street ANOTHER CVP SCOOP: A fugitive who got lost in Haworth while heading into New York City to visit his son is about to be sent back to Missouri after a borough officer patrolling side streets pulled him over. Officer Justin Fox sensed something wasn’t right when he stopped the vehicle before dawn yesterday on quiet Whitman Street after the driver failed to keep right. Running a background check, he discovered that 56-year-old Robin Allen Glackin was wanted by Missouri authorities for skipping court on a host of offenses, including domestic violence and DWI, Haworth Sgt. Michael Gracey told C…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
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Moonachie, Little Ferry families get special Christmas from Bergen sheriff, staff Moonachie, Little Ferry families get special Christmas from Bergen sheriff, staff Moonachie, Little Ferry families get special Christmas from Bergen sheriff, staff
Moonachie, Little Ferry families get special Christmas from Bergen sheriff, staff SPECIAL REPORT: Twenty Moonachie and Little Ferry families battered by Hurricane Sandy floodwaters had a joyous Christmas party tonight — with toys (lots of ‘em), food and other goodies — organized and paid for by Bergen County Sheriff Michael Saudino and his wife and members of PBA Local #134. Union members were out in force, along with the Saudinos, the sheriff’s administrative staff and plenty of other volunteers who together made holiday magic at the Hasbrouck Heights Elks Club. Waiting for Santa (CLIFFVIEW PILOT photos) Amid the hot and cold buffet, a surprise visitor crashed the p…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Pascack Valley, NJ
Breaking News
NJ Senate approves Dusty’s Law protecting service animals NJ Senate approves Dusty’s Law protecting service animals NJ Senate approves Dusty’s Law protecting service animals
NJ Senate approves Dusty’s Law protecting service animals YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: New Jersey’s state Senate today unanimously approved Dusty’s Law, which establishes new crimes for dogs who attack or harm service animals — including seeing-eye or search-and-rescue dogs, as well as other animals used in law enforcement. Jim Kutsch, president and CEO of the Seeing Eye, and his wife, Ginger, at Senate vote with Jim’s dog, Colby(CVP PHOTOS) Police cannot investigate such instances as a criminal act but, instead, must refer them to animal control agencies who sometimes cannot respond immediately on nights or weekends. Police response is critical…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Rutherford, NJ
Breaking News
North Bergen housing official pleads guilty to extortion North Bergen housing official pleads guilty to extortion North Bergen housing official pleads guilty to extortion
North Bergen housing official pleads guilty to extortion YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: North Bergen Housing Authority Operations Director John T. “Jack” Kennell today admitted in federal court in Newark that he extorted employees of a Rutherford maintenance contractor that did business with the agency. Whenever he wanted the private employees to pay him off in $10 and $20 bills, all Kennell had to do was whistle, federal authorities said when they arrested him four months ago. He was immediately suspended without pay by the NBHA. Kennell, 49, of North Bergen, today pleaded guilty to a single count of extortion “under color of official right and by …

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