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 Valley, NJ
Breaking News
Former Park Ridge reserve police officer charged with eluding police, DWI, among other counts Former Park Ridge reserve police officer charged with eluding police, DWI, among other counts Former Park Ridge reserve police officer charged with eluding police, DWI, among other counts
Former Park Ridge reserve police officer charged with eluding police, DWI, among other counts ONLY ON CLIFFVIEW PILOT: A former Park Ridge reserve police officer was being held on $50,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail on a host of offenses, including attempting to elude police. Old Tappan police began the pursuit early Saturday and subsequently called it off because of the speed and risk to others. Hillsdale police, hearing the broadcast of the license plate number, recognized the driver, 38-year-old Eric Bongard. They passed by his house and caught him pulling into his driveway around 3 a.m. After field-testing him, the Hillsdale officers took Bongard to headquarters, where …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Several police agencies break up brawl at General Poor’s Tavern in Hackensack Several police agencies break up brawl at General Poor’s Tavern in Hackensack Several police agencies break up brawl at General Poor’s Tavern in Hackensack
Several police agencies break up brawl at General Poor’s Tavern in Hackensack Police from several departments converged on General Poor’s Tavern in Hackensack to bust up a brawl that spilled into the street and included some drunken combatants wielding bottles around 1:30 this morning. No serious injuries were reported and no one was taken to the hospital following the rumble, which involved more than a few local men who’ve been arrested before. “With those numbers, we called in the cavalry,” one officer told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. Responding along were: Hackensack police were officers from the Bergen County and New Jersey State police department, the county sheriff’s …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgewood, NJ
Breaking News
Driver gets summonses after truck hits Route 17 bridge in Ridgewood Driver gets summonses after truck hits Route 17 bridge in Ridgewood Driver gets summonses after truck hits Route 17 bridge in Ridgewood
Driver gets summonses after truck hits Route 17 bridge in Ridgewood YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A rolloff truck carrying two construction vehicles hit the Linwood Avenue bridge on Route 17 in Ridgewood this morning and kept going. No injuries were reported in the 10:15 a.m. incident. However, police issued the driver two summonses after finding the damaged truck in a nearby shopping center parking lot. Bergen County police joined their Ridgewood counterparts at the scene. A bridge inspector from the New Jersey Department of Transporation determined that the bridge hadn’t sustained any structural damage.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Highlands, NJ
Breaking News
Report of gunman puts Midland Park High School on lockdown Report of gunman puts Midland Park High School on lockdown Report of gunman puts Midland Park High School on lockdown
Report of gunman puts Midland Park High School on lockdown BULLETIN (4 p.m.): Police took Midland Park High School off lockdown, allowing students and staff to leave just after 3:45, following a report of a shot fired from the woods across the street and the sighting of a man in a hunter’s vest. UPDATE: Midland Park High School and the Children’s Therapy Center, both on opposite sides of Prospect Street, were on lockdown for nearly an hour after dismissal today, following a report of a shot fired from the woods on the property of the Church of the Nativity. READ MORE…. Three Bergen County Police Department K9 units searched the surrounding area, …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Englewood public adjustor who scammed insurance companies of $42,000 gets probation Englewood public adjustor who scammed insurance companies of $42,000 gets probation Englewood public adjustor who scammed insurance companies of $42,000 gets probation
Englewood public adjustor who scammed insurance companies of $42,000 gets probation YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: An Englewood public adjustor was sentenced to 18 months probation today of scamming more than $42,000 from clients and insurance companies — including one that insured a church in Essex County — by billing for services that were never completed. Sheena Clarke, 59, was also ordered to surrender her public adjuster’s license, pay $42,519 in restitution and complete 300 hours of community service. She also paid a $5,125 civil penalty to the Department of Banking and Insurance. Clarke pleaded guilty on Aug. 13 to insurance fraud after being indicted by an Essex Count…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paramus, NJ
Breaking News
Prescription drug take-back this weekend: Find your town here Prescription drug take-back this weekend: Find your town here Prescription drug take-back this weekend: Find your town here
Prescription drug take-back this weekend: Find your town here COMPLETE BERGEN LIST: Closing out National Recovery Month, citizens get another chance Saturday to turn in unused, potentially dangerous medications, with no questions asked, in more than three dozen Bergen County towns and elsewhere. Here’s a list …. Nearly 1.6 million pounds of prescription drugs have been turned in over the past two years under the federal Drug Enforcement Administration’s Take Back Day program. Federal authorities say the program has helped prevent addiction, overdose deaths and the diversion of drugs to street dealers. The problem with flushing meds, they said, is …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Fairview police say car burglar was carrying GPS devices, more when stopped Fairview police say car burglar was carrying GPS devices, more when stopped Fairview police say car burglar was carrying GPS devices, more when stopped
Fairview police say car burglar was carrying GPS devices, more when stopped YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A concerned citizen got Fairview police to Franklin Avenue in time to find a man who they said had two GPS devices and wires taken from cars on the block. The call came in, with a description, at 5:49 a.m. Wednesday, Police Chief Frank DelVecchio said. Responding officers found 37-year-old Jerry O. Holquin of Hackensack, who they said first tried to claim he was someone else. Inside his sweatshirt were the GPS devices, a mounting mechanism and charging cords, DelVecchio said. Holquin is being held on $20,000 bail on three counts of attempted burglary, two count…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Valley, NJ
Breaking News
NJ Supreme Court bans ex-Norwood judge from bench for 5 years in ticket-fix case NJ Supreme Court bans ex-Norwood judge from bench for 5 years in ticket-fix case NJ Supreme Court bans ex-Norwood judge from bench for 5 years in ticket-fix case
NJ Supreme Court bans ex-Norwood judge from bench for 5 years in ticket-fix case YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: The New Jersey Supreme Court has banned a former part-time Norwood municipal judge from the bench for five years for dismissing a speeding ticket against his daughter’s onetime speech teacher, CLIFFVIEW PILOT has learned. Former Municipal Court Judge Robert A. Solomon originally claimed that a state ethics panel got it all wrong when it accused him of violating codes of judicial conduct. But the Supreme Court, after hearing his side of the story, accepted the Advisory Committee on Judicial Conduct’s findings of “clear and convincing evidence” that Solomon violated …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Breaking News
BCC student charged with bashing limo with baseball bat, spitting at driver BCC student charged with bashing limo with baseball bat, spitting at driver BCC student charged with bashing limo with baseball bat, spitting at driver
BCC student charged with bashing limo with baseball bat, spitting at driver YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A limo driver who pulled into a Bergen Community College parking lot the wrong way got into an argument with a student who police said spit at him, smacked him in the head and bashed the limousine with a baseball bat. Seryy Alejsiy (MUGSHOT: BCPD) The driver told Bergen County Police Officer Sara Toro he had dropped off passengers at the campus and was mistakenly entered the parking lot the wrong way when he ended up in the path of another vehicle. That driver of that car — later identified as 20-year-old Seryy Alejsiy of Fair Lawn — began yelling at him, the …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Sheriff’s officer catches ex-con breaking into cars at Bergen County Courthouse Sheriff’s officer catches ex-con breaking into cars at Bergen County Courthouse Sheriff’s officer catches ex-con breaking into cars at Bergen County Courthouse
Sheriff’s officer catches ex-con breaking into cars at Bergen County Courthouse YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: An ex-con released last Friday after two months behind bars picked an unlikely place to re-offend — the parking lot of the Bergen County courthouse — and was quickly snagged by a sheriff’s officer after breaking into one car and trying to burglarize several others, Sheriff Michael Saudino said this morning. Calvin Glover (MUGSHOT: BCSO) Officer Richard Carrion spotted 56-year-old Calvin Glover working the Hackensack lot, where jurors, lawyers and other people doing business in court park their cars, Wednesday afternoon, the sheriff said. Carrion is assigned to…

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