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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Northern Highlands, NJ
Breaking News
Report identifies New Jersey’s biggest threat: burglars Report identifies New Jersey’s biggest threat: burglars Report identifies New Jersey’s biggest threat: burglars
Report identifies New Jersey’s biggest threat: burglars SPECIAL REPORT: The number of murders, rapes and robberies in New Jersey may have remained steady last year, but two crimes increased dramatically: burglaries and car thefts. Reflecting what police say is heightened desperation by drug addicts and other unemployed members of the lower class, burglaries spiked by 11 percent and stolen vehicles by 12 percent, according to the 2011 Uniform Crime Report released by the state Attorney General’s Office. Nowhere is that explanation clearer than in the total value of stolen jewelry and “precious metals” — from $62.6 million in 2010 to a whopping …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Deadline this week for Bergen PBA Toy Drive Deadline this week for Bergen PBA Toy Drive Deadline this week for Bergen PBA Toy Drive
Deadline this week for Bergen PBA Toy Drive SPOTLIGHT:  Time is running out to donate to the 2012 PBA Toy Drive in Bergen County. This year, the (SRT) Santa Response Team will be adding pre-Christmas trips to Toms River and to Newtown, CT. Collecting for the annual drive, police from more than two dozen Bergen County towns were driven by how Hurricane Sandy has upended the lives of so many youngsters and adults. They now have Friday’s massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in mind, as well. Some also have memories of delivering toys directly to ailing kids and their families. “Santa” distributing presents at the Sanzari Childre…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
Breaking News
Arrest in bogus Saddle Brook Oxy prescriptions Arrest in bogus Saddle Brook Oxy prescriptions Arrest in bogus Saddle Brook Oxy prescriptions
Arrest in bogus Saddle Brook Oxy prescriptions YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Saddle Brook police arrested a Lodi woman on charges of obtaining oxycodone by using blank prescriptions she stole from the doctors she worked for. Angela A. Ortiz, 42, was released without bail pending a Municipal Court appearance Wednesday on theft charges. Saddle Brook Police Chief Robert Kugler said Ortiz began taking the blanks from the Market Street offices of doctors Michael Wiener and Francesco Pagano soon after she was hired three months ago. A local pharmacist called the physicians on Friday, asking about the scripts, Kugler said. They, in turn, called …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Pascack Valley, NJ
Breaking News
River Vale DWI checkpoint yields more arrests River Vale DWI checkpoint yields more arrests River Vale DWI checkpoint yields more arrests
River Vale DWI checkpoint yields more arrests YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: River Vale police continued their D.W.I. checkpoint last night, picking off a pair of Hudson County men on outstanding warrants and an Englewood man who they said gave them bogus information. More than 140 vehicles were stopped at the Rivervale Road checkpoint, Detective Sgt. John DeVoe said. Among those charged were: a 27-year-old Union City man wanted on an outstanding warrant. He also received a summons for being unlicensed driver and not having proof of insurance; a 30-year-old male West New York man on an outstanding warrant; a 21-year-old Englewoo…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
River Edge man charged in DWI crash that severely injured good Samaritan River Edge man charged in DWI crash that severely injured good Samaritan River Edge man charged in DWI crash that severely injured good Samaritan
River Edge man charged in DWI crash that severely injured good Samaritan YOU READ IT HERE: A 30-year-old River Edge man was drunk when his caused a Paramus collision before dawn today that seriously injured a pedestrian, Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said tonight, in announcing the suspect’s arrest. Gregory Komporlis was being held on $50,000 bail, charged with assault by auto, reckless driving and refusing to submit to a blood test. The crash occurred just after 2:10 a.m. today in the northbound lanes of Forest Avenue, near Norman Way. Paramus officers responded to the scene, joined by detectives from Molinelli’s Fatal Accident Unit. They fou…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Pascack Valley, NJ
Breaking News
Jilted Park Ridge boyfriend taken to hospital, no SWAT action Jilted Park Ridge boyfriend taken to hospital, no SWAT action Jilted Park Ridge boyfriend taken to hospital, no SWAT action
Jilted Park Ridge boyfriend taken to hospital, no SWAT action YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A frantic girlfriend’s call sent the Bergen County Police SWAT team to a Park Ridge home tonight, but a reportedly suicidal young man who lives there came out and was taken away by Tri-Boro Ambulance, CLIFFVIEW PILOT has learned. The couple, in the middle of a breakup, were chatting on a webcam when the South Maple Street man said he was going to kill himself, the girlfriend told police. He then walked back and forth in front of the web cam, loading and unloading a gun, she said. Police said she told them he also may have been inhaling from an aerosol can. Morr…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Newtown, CT
Breaking News
Hoboken man’s brother was Connecticut gunman Hoboken man’s brother was Connecticut gunman Hoboken man’s brother was Connecticut gunman
Hoboken man’s brother was Connecticut gunman YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: The gunman in the Connecticut school massacre has been officially identified as Adam Lanza — a developmentally disabled student — and not his older brother, Ryan, of Hoboken, who was scooped up and taken in for questioning soon after the incident, as CLIFFVIEW PILOT reported exclusively earlier this afternoon. Ryan Lanza, 27, was initially identified by CLIFFVIEW PILOT and other media as the gunman. But  CLIFFVIEW PILOT reported a short time later that he was taken into custody for questioning and that his brother, 20-year-old brother was deemed responsible (SEE: C…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Prosecutor: No grand jury in shooting of Leonia robber who rushed police with knife Prosecutor: No grand jury in shooting of Leonia robber who rushed police with knife Prosecutor: No grand jury in shooting of Leonia robber who rushed police with knife
Prosecutor: No grand jury in shooting of Leonia robber who rushed police with knife BREAKING NEWS: Rickey McFadden was wielding a cheap steak knife with a 7-inch blade that he refused to drop as he charged at a police officer when he was shot and killed on a Leonia street, Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said today, in declining to present the case to a state grand jury for review. “I do believe this was a justified shooting,” the prosecutor said. State Attorney General Jeffrey Chiesa can agree with the Leonia decision, disagree with it, or send it back for further investigation. During an early afternoon news conference, Molinelli displayed aerial views of th…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Fertility doctor sentenced in sex assaults Fertility doctor sentenced in sex assaults Fertility doctor sentenced in sex assaults
Fertility doctor sentenced in sex assaults YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: An angry judge in Hackensack this morning sentenced a fertility doctor from Englewood to seven years in prison for sexually abusing patients, after one of the victims testified that she will “never trust a doctor again.” CORRECTION: Under the terms of his plea agreement, Dr. Alfredo Garcia will serve his sentence at the Adult Diagnostic and Treatment Center in Avenel. “You violated your oath as a physician, and you violated the law,” Superior Court Judge Edward Jerejian told Dr. Alfredo Garcia this morning, before sentencing Garcia to the maximum state prison term. …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Rutherford, NJ
Breaking News
Wood-Ridge police bust car theft ring Wood-Ridge police bust car theft ring Wood-Ridge police bust car theft ring
Wood-Ridge police bust car theft ring YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A tri-state car-theft ring that shipped stolen vehicles as far as Barcelona, Spain, was busted by Wood-Ridge police with the arrests of men from Union City and Paterson. The probe began after an assistant manager at a car dealership storage facility on Passaic Street reported finding an unoccupied vehicle running, with its door open and broken glass, where several others had been parked, Wood-Ridge Police Chief Joseph Rutigliano said this morning. Using evidence found at the scene and information from sources, Detective Lt. John Korin, along with Detectives Joseph …

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