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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Paramus, NJ
Breaking News
North Bergen DPW did illegal work in Paramus, West New York, employees say North Bergen DPW did illegal work in Paramus, West New York, employees say North Bergen DPW did illegal work in Paramus, West New York, employees say
North Bergen DPW did illegal work in Paramus, West New York, employees say YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Witnesses have seen North Bergen DPW employees working on the Paramus home of Czar Wiley — a township grammar school vice-principal and son of former DPW Director James Wiley — as well as in Wiley’s son’s office in West New York and at a West New York municipal garage, a township activist group announced this morning. Two Parks Department supervisors signed affidavits saying they found DPW and Parks Department workers painting Count Wiley’s West New York office last fall, as well as doing work at the West New York DPW lot several weeks later. Count Wiley is a  memb…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Highlands, NJ
Breaking News
Authorities: Extortion mistress got $5,000, wanted more from car dealer co-worker Authorities: Extortion mistress got $5,000, wanted more from car dealer co-worker Authorities: Extortion mistress got $5,000, wanted more from car dealer co-worker
Authorities: Extortion mistress got $5,000, wanted more from car dealer co-worker EXCLUSIVE: An Upper Saddle River car salesman had already paid a former co-worker $5,000 to keep quiet about their affair when she and her fiance demanded he bring her another $2,500, a source with direct knowledge of the case told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. What they didn’t know was that detectives and local police were waiting when the couple pulled into the parking lot of the Capri Inn, just off Route 46. “He quickly realized there was no amount of money he was ever going to pay,” a law enforcement source with direct knowledge of the case told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. “So he went to the police.” Sarah…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
3 Port Authority officers suspended for false truck inspection records at Holland Tunnel 3 Port Authority officers suspended for false truck inspection records at Holland Tunnel 3 Port Authority officers suspended for false truck inspection records at Holland Tunnel
3 Port Authority officers suspended for false truck inspection records at Holland Tunnel EXCLUSIVE: Three Port Authority police officers who work at the Holland Tunnel, one of them a PBA delegate, have been temporarily suspended for allegedly falsifying truck inspection records, CLIFFVIEW PILOT has learned. All three were suspended with pay earlier this week following an investigation by the authority’s Internal Affairs Bureau, a source with direct knowledge of the incident told CLIFFVIEW PILOT this afternoon. One is an outspoken delegate of the Port Authority Police Benevolent Association, the source said. Internal affairs officers working out of the Office of the Inspecto…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Beekman-Poughquag, NY
Breaking News
Allen Toussaint brings New Orleans charm, style, skill to City Winery Allen Toussaint brings New Orleans charm, style, skill to City Winery Allen Toussaint brings New Orleans charm, style, skill to City Winery
Allen Toussaint brings New Orleans charm, style, skill to City Winery IN TUNE: In his glittery satin threads, Allen Toussaint looked, as always, like a Mardi Gras chief gone uptown for the first of two City Winery gigs.  As always, he commanded respect and admiration — through both his dazzling virtuosity on the Steinway and his genteel, open-hearted charm. It’s no stretch to say that Toussaint is one of the 20th century’s musical giants. And although he’s made his fortune writing and producing hit songs for others (“Working in the Coalmine,” “Mother-in-Law,” “Southern Nights”), he has become so polished, accomplished and talented an entertainer at 74 year…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Former prosecutor: Bergen PD should stay Former prosecutor: Bergen PD should stay Former prosecutor: Bergen PD should stay
Former prosecutor: Bergen PD should stay A FORMER PROSECUTOR WRITES: Those who would disband the Bergen County Police base such opinion due to either a lack of knowledge and experience of its workings and necessity to other county and municipal law enforcement or out of a desire to aggregate power for political purposes in a Sheriff’s Office that has, at best, been overly political and on occasion even criminal in years past. The County Police provide valuable services that do not come with a “political” price tag, and they recognize and abide by lawful authority and an established chain of command. As County Prosecutor, I initi…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Highlands, NJ
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Mistress, ex-con fiance nabbed in plot to extort Upper Saddle River businessman Mistress, ex-con fiance nabbed in plot to extort Upper Saddle River businessman Mistress, ex-con fiance nabbed in plot to extort Upper Saddle River businessman
Mistress, ex-con fiance nabbed in plot to extort Upper Saddle River businessman YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A mistress and her ex-con fiance were arrested outside a Little Ferry motel after arriving for what they thought would be another cash pickup in an extortion plot involving a married man she’d slept with when they both worked at an Upper Saddle River car dealership, authorities said this morning. Sarah McAllister, 24, of Shaler Boulevard in Ridgefield was being held on a combined $55,750 bail, while John Diciancia, 26, of South Main Street in Lodi was being held on more than $100,000 bail, both at the Bergen County Jail. Both are former car dealership employees — h…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Couple charged in New Milford 7Eleven armed robbery Couple charged in New Milford 7Eleven armed robbery Couple charged in New Milford 7Eleven armed robbery
Couple charged in New Milford 7Eleven armed robbery YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Bonnie and Clyde they aren’t: A couple were being held in the Bergen County Jail following their arrests earlier today in connection with an overnight 7Eleven holdup ithat netted $200 and a display of cigarette lighters, New Milford Police Chief Frank Papapietro said. Hackensack police, who initially got the call, alerted their New Milford counterparts to the 3:45 a.m. armed robbery at the River Road convenience store. Minutes later, the night manager told New Milford Police Sgt. John Moroney and Officers Brian Carlino and Morris that he ran out of the store after …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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2 arrested in New Milford 7Eleven armed robbery 2 arrested in New Milford 7Eleven armed robbery 2 arrested in New Milford 7Eleven armed robbery
2 arrested in New Milford 7Eleven armed robbery YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Bonnie and Clyde they aren’t: A couple were being held in the Bergen County Jail following their arrests earlier today in connection with an overnight 7Eleven holdup ithat netted $200 and a display of cigarette lighters, New Milford Police Chief Frank Papapietro said. Hackensack police, who initially got the call, alerted their New Milford counterparts to the 3:45 a.m. armed robbery at the River Road convenience store. Minutes later, the night manager told New Milford Police Sgt. John Moroney and Officers Brian Carlino and Morris that he ran out of the store after …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Pascack Valley, NJ
Breaking News
Boiler fire forces evacuation of Emerson nursing home, reporter removed from property Boiler fire forces evacuation of Emerson nursing home, reporter removed from property Boiler fire forces evacuation of Emerson nursing home, reporter removed from property
Boiler fire forces evacuation of Emerson nursing home, reporter removed from property BEHIND THE STORY: Nearly 150 residents and employees were evacuated from the Emerson Health and Rehabilitation Center after a small boiler fire sent smoke through the facility. No major injuries were reported in the blaze, which was called in from the Kinderkamack Road facility around 10:15 this morning. Emerson police extinguished the fire as borough firefighters arrived. CLIFFVIEW PILOT photos Also responding to the site were Westwood, which sent its rescue truck, Washington Township, and Hillsdale, which sent an ambulance to another Emerson call in the middle of the incident. A T…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Fair Lawn police grab career burglar in dry cleaners break-in Fair Lawn police grab career burglar in dry cleaners break-in Fair Lawn police grab career burglar in dry cleaners break-in
Fair Lawn police grab career burglar in dry cleaners break-in ANOTHER SCOOP: A career thief with a decades-long record burglarized a Fair Lawn dry cleaners after breaking in through the roof of a vacant store and climbing in through the ceiling, said police, who arrested him after responding to an alarm. Reginald Edeton Norman, 52, was being held on $50,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail after his overnight arrest, just before 1 a.m. Norman is charged with with burglary, theft, receiving stolen property, criminal mischief and defiant trespassing. Officers responding to the alarm found the back door of Doulos Cleaners on Maple Avenue open and other…

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