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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Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Price gouging suits name Lincoln Tunnel hotel, Mahwah Comfort Suites, others Price gouging suits name Lincoln Tunnel hotel, Mahwah Comfort Suites, others Price gouging suits name Lincoln Tunnel hotel, Mahwah Comfort Suites, others
Price gouging suits name Lincoln Tunnel hotel, Mahwah Comfort Suites, others YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A trio of hotels operated by a North Bergen-based company, a gas station in the township and a Comfort Suites in Mahwah are among 10 businesses smacked with price-gouging lawsuits by state authorities. Seven hotels in all are accused of more than 1,000 collective incidents in the second round of suits filed against businesses for illegally overcharging consumers during the Hurricane Sandy state of emergency. The hotels allegedly charged more than $400 per night in some instances, and excessively increased the rates for rooms by varying amounts, up to more than 200%…

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Teaneck, NJ
Breaking News
Footprints lead Teaneck police straight to burglary suspects Footprints lead Teaneck police straight to burglary suspects Footprints lead Teaneck police straight to burglary suspects
Footprints lead Teaneck police straight to burglary suspects Teaneck police didn’t have far to look far after a Queen Anne Road home was burglarized. After forcing their way in through a first-floor window, the burglars broke open a safe, taking $20,000 in jewelry, cash and coins while leaving behind “a white powdery residue,” Police Chief Robert A. Wilson said. Thanks to the powder, responding officers simply followed footprints to a nearby house. There, they found 19-year-old John-Michael C. Robertson, who lives there, and a guest, Jerry J. Whittaker, also 19, Wilson said. The officers easily matched the pattern on his shoe soles to those lef…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
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Number of rear-enders, cost of damage increase with NJ red-light cameras Number of rear-enders, cost of damage increase with NJ red-light cameras Number of rear-enders, cost of damage increase with NJ red-light cameras
Number of rear-enders, cost of damage increase with NJ red-light cameras WHAT DO YOU THINK? A study of red-light cameras at 24 New Jersey intersections shows a 20-percent jump in rear-end crashes, along with a $1.17 million increase in damage costs — reasons why one lawmaker says they should be removed immediately. “Before our pilot program even started, we knew from the experiences of other states that red light cameras are great at generating revenue for the government but are bad at making dangerous intersections safer for drivers,” state Sen. Mike Doherty said this morning. “This complete failure to achieve that primary goal of increasing driver safety sho…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Highlands, NJ
Breaking News
Woman, 57, says Garfield female carjacker cut her Woman, 57, says Garfield female carjacker cut her Woman, 57, says Garfield female carjacker cut her
Woman, 57, says Garfield female carjacker cut her YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A 57-year-old shopper told Garfield police a woman came up on her in the Midland Square parking lot, cut her hand, then took off in her car. The motorist told police she’d opened the trunk of her 2007 Toyota Camry after coming out of Garfield Farms with packages a little after 3 p.m. yesterday when she was approached from behind. After cutting her on the left hand, the robber snatched her keys and drove off in the car, heading through the parking lot onto Van Winkle Avenue going west, the woman said. She described her assailant as white, 35-40 years old, with blo…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Pascack Valley, NJ
Breaking News
Prosecutors offer plea deal to Emerson podiatrist in Oxy prescription case Prosecutors offer plea deal to Emerson podiatrist in Oxy prescription case Prosecutors offer plea deal to Emerson podiatrist in Oxy prescription case
Prosecutors offer plea deal to Emerson podiatrist in Oxy prescription case CLIFFVIEW PILOT EXCLUSIVE: Prosecutors have offered an Emerson podiatrist a deal under which he’d go to prison for up to seven years in exchange for pleading guilty to a single count of distributing high-dose Oxycodone to black-market brokers. Carnig C. Shakarjian would also be fined $250,000 and lose his medical license under the proposed agreement. It was too soon to tell where the state’s offer could lead after a defense attorney entered a not-guilty plea on Shakarjian’s behalf Monday at his arraignment on a 16-count Bergen County grand jury indictment. If convicted at a trial of the…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Ex-con charged with carjacking, abducting former girlfriend in Teaneck Ex-con charged with carjacking, abducting former girlfriend in Teaneck Ex-con charged with carjacking, abducting former girlfriend in Teaneck
Ex-con charged with carjacking, abducting former girlfriend in Teaneck EXCLUSIVE: Ex-con Keshon Archer was out on bail, awaiting trial for charges that include aggravated assault on a police officer, when he forced his way into his girlfriend’s car and drove off with her against her will, ignoring a restraining order, Teaneck police said today. Witnesses who followed them, calling police along the way, forced the 32-year-old career criminal from Paterson to stop the 2010 Dodge Challenger in the Riverside Square Mall parking lot, Teaneck Police Chief Robert Wilson said. Although Archer bailed out, off-duty NJ State Police Trooper Joseph Brennan helped officer…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Three-alarm blaze at Teaneck factory building Three-alarm blaze at Teaneck factory building Three-alarm blaze at Teaneck factory building
Three-alarm blaze at Teaneck factory building UPDATE: No serious injuries were reported in a blaze at an abandoned Teaneck factory fire this afternoon that continued to snag area traffic into the rush hour. Teaneck factory fire Columns of smoke could be seen miles from the former Stanson Chemicals building at 520 Palisade Avenue, where soap and detergents once were made. “The warehouse was under demolition,” a firefighter at the scene told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. “It probably started from a welder cutting up steal beams.” Teaneck firefighters were being assisted by their colleagues from Bogota, Englewood, Ridgefield Park and Hacken…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Highlands, NJ
Breaking News
Salvadoran national charged with Midland Park break-in, rape Salvadoran national charged with Midland Park break-in, rape Salvadoran national charged with Midland Park break-in, rape
Salvadoran national charged with Midland Park break-in, rape YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Salvadoran national was being held on $250,000 bail, and likely faces deportation, after being arrested and charged with a burglary and rape in Midland Park. Franklin Ramon Reyes Ponce, 29, is accused of taking advantage of a fellow immigrant who, like him, was under the influence when the incident occurred. Members of the Midland Park Police Department and Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office Special Victims Unit arrested him on Saturday after determining that he entered the victim’s home without permission and sexually assaulted her the night before, Prosecutor Jo…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
Breaking News
Diplomat fined for failing to pay domestic in Englewood Diplomat fined for failing to pay domestic in Englewood Diplomat fined for failing to pay domestic in Englewood
Diplomat fined for failing to pay domestic in Englewood YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: The ambassador to the U.S. from the Republic of Mauritius was fined $5,000 today for failing to properly pay a domestic worker minimum hourly and overtime wages when he lived in Englewood. Somduth Soborun, 61, pleaded guilty in September to the charge, for which U.S. Magistrate Judge Patty Shwartz fined him today. He also has agreed to pay the worker $24,153 in restitution. “Like all human beings, I have failings, too,” Soborun told Shwartz earlier today. “I’d like to assure you that it was not, it has never been, and it will never be my intent to hurt anyone in …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
Breaking News
Cliffside Park native brings relief supplies to Jersey Shore church Cliffside Park native brings relief supplies to Jersey Shore church Cliffside Park native brings relief supplies to Jersey Shore church
Cliffside Park native brings relief supplies to Jersey Shore church ONLY ON CVP: Randi (Enrico) Peterson may have left Cliffside Park, but a piece of her heart remains in New Jersey — which helped bring a 48-foot truck full of food, water and clothing to a Jersey Shore church this weekend. Petersen, who was graduated from Cliffside Park High School and now lives in Connecticut, organized a major fund drive in New Haven for victims of Hurricane Sandy. Over the weekend, she and others headed to Jackson — where The Church of Grace and Peace in Toms River has a warehouse — with the relief delivery. “High-fives to her for doing this with the donations from t…

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