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
Passaic driver charged with molesting Garfield girl, 9 Passaic driver charged with molesting Garfield girl, 9 Passaic driver charged with molesting Garfield girl, 9
Passaic driver charged with molesting Garfield girl, 9 YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Detectives yesterday arrested a Passaic man on charges of molesting a 9-year-old former Garfield girl this past February. Investigators took 44-year-old Jamie L. Vasquez into custody after interviewing the girl, who is now 10, Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said this afternoon. He is charged with sexual assault and child endangerment. “The victim recently disclosed to her mother what had occurred, who then notified the Garfield Police Department,” Molinelli said. “They contacted the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office Special Victims Unit after which ar…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
Breaking News
FB down? NP getting APBs with CVP FB down? NP getting APBs with CVP FB down? NP getting APBs with CVP
FB down? NP getting APBs with CVP SHOUT OUT: For those who didn’t know: You don’t need FB to get the news that matters to you. Be sure to bookmark CLIFFVIEWPILOT.com and check back often. We’re always posting breaking news, fresh stories, updates and exclusives. You can also subscribe to our free newsletter and have the day’s headlines in your emailbox: Breaking news, morning wrap to your inbox — free from CLIFFVIEW PILOT There’s also our RSS feed, bringing you all the links that matter: CVP RSS Your CLIFFVIEW PILOT: Local and loyal.  

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by Jerry DeMarco
Teaneck, NJ
Breaking News
Teaneck trucker charged with having sex with Englewood girl, 14 Teaneck trucker charged with having sex with Englewood girl, 14 Teaneck trucker charged with having sex with Englewood girl, 14
Teaneck trucker charged with having sex with Englewood girl, 14 YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A truck driver from Teaneck was arrested on charges of having sex with a 14-year-old Englewood girl five years ago. Kevin Wright, 48, was being held on $200,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail, charged with sexual assault, criminal sexual contact and child endangerment. Wright was arrested Tuesday after the alleged victim – now 19 – told her mother, who called Englewood police, Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said early this afternoon. Detectives from Englewood and Molinelli’s Special Victims Unit interviewed the girl before making the arrest, he said. …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Elmwood Park woman, boyfriend indicted in Englewood 7-Eleven holdup Elmwood Park woman, boyfriend indicted in Englewood 7-Eleven holdup Elmwood Park woman, boyfriend indicted in Englewood 7-Eleven holdup
Elmwood Park woman, boyfriend indicted in Englewood 7-Eleven holdup ONLY ON CVP: A grand jury this week brought first-degree charges against a Staten Island man who Leonia police said they grabbed running from an Englewood 7-Eleven holdup with two fists full of cash. David Debowski, 24, is charged with threatening the convenience store clerk by pretending he had a gun while robbing $780. His girlfriend, 23-year-old Marjorie Alva of Elmwood Park, was arrested after police found her waiting in a car outside the store during the Jan. 15 holdup. Grand jurors indicted her for the same offense as Debowski — only as a third-degree crime. She was also charged w…

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by Jerry DeMarco
West Milford, NJ
Breaking News
Bus terminal soda thief had loaded gun, knife, Port Authority police say Bus terminal soda thief had loaded gun, knife, Port Authority police say Bus terminal soda thief had loaded gun, knife, Port Authority police say
Bus terminal soda thief had loaded gun, knife, Port Authority police say BEYOND BERGEN: A man who Port Authority police chased down for swiping a soda from a bus station newsstand was carrying a loaded gun and a pistol-grip knife, they said. Two plainclothes officers heard the shouts of a stand worker and spotted 37-year-old Vincent Pierce of the Bronx with the soda in his hand in the midtown Manhattan Port Authority bus terminal around 11 a.m. yesterday, the authority’s Joseph Pentangelo said. Pierce tried to run but was quickly grabbed, he said. The officers found him carrying the loaded .45-caliber pistol and the knife, Pentangelo said. The 5-foot-10-in…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
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Friday air travel: Ruling with an ironic twist Friday air travel: Ruling with an ironic twist Friday air travel: Ruling with an ironic twist
Friday air travel: Ruling with an ironic twist A TRAVELER WRITES: Friday morning may be the worst time to travel. It’s not really the weekend yet, so everybody still has a weekday hangover, anticipating the joyous rewards that Saturday brings. And there are rules — especially at the airport. One firm rule of travel: Never follow a large group all wearing the same shirts. It’s either going to be a day camp, a family reunion, airline pilots or the maintenance crew that just repaired the toilets used by any of the above groups. Uniformed groups are fraught with confusion, indecision and (in all the cases above) a unique collective odor. …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Indictment charges Saddle Brook designer with scamming partners out of $400,000 Indictment charges Saddle Brook designer with scamming partners out of $400,000 Indictment charges Saddle Brook designer with scamming partners out of $400,000
Indictment charges Saddle Brook designer with scamming partners out of $400,000 ONLY ON CVP: A partner in a Saddle Brook fashion design company who authorities said pocketed $400,000 in seed money without producing a single stitch was indicted by a grand jury in Hackensack on embezzlement-related charges. Designer Linda Martinez scammed two co-directors of Marti Prive Inc., a Route 80 womens’ apparel manufacturer, between May 2009 and December of last year, the indictment returned Monday says. It says she forged invoices to the company in the names of foreign businesses and failed to make debt payments “dealing with the money as if her own.” Martinez has remained f…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
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Ex-con charged with molesting woman on Jersey City street has extensive rap sheet Ex-con charged with molesting woman on Jersey City street has extensive rap sheet Ex-con charged with molesting woman on Jersey City street has extensive rap sheet
Ex-con charged with molesting woman on Jersey City street has extensive rap sheet BEYOND BERGEN: An ex-con who Port Authority police charged with molesting a 23-year-old woman outside a Jersey City church has an extensive rap sheet with no fewer than a dozen arrests, CLIFFVIEW PILOT has found. Officers Vito Venetucci and Po Ju Yoo grabbed 37-year-old Alfonzo Williams Jr. a short distance from the corner at Montgomery and Summit avenues following the 6 a.m. assault yesterday, the authority’s Joseph Pentangelo said. Witnesses on bicycles flagged them down, he said. The woman declined medical attention, Pentangelo said. Williams, who was charged with criminal sexual c…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
New charges against ex-con in North Bergen, West New York armed robberies New charges against ex-con in North Bergen, West New York armed robberies New charges against ex-con in North Bergen, West New York armed robberies
New charges against ex-con in North Bergen, West New York armed robberies YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A federal grand jury in Newark today brought new armed robbery charges against one North Bergen man after another admitted being his partner in a pair of bank holdups in Fairview and Secaucus. Federal authorities also announced that a woman who was the third defendant in the bank robberies died last month. An arraignment date on the superseding indictment will be set for Gary Bohanan, a 44-year-old career criminal who once escaped from the Hudson County Jail. The new indictment charges him with robbing a North Bergen McDonald’s on July 10 of last year, as well as…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Leonia business suit burglar strikes again Leonia business suit burglar strikes again Leonia business suit burglar strikes again
Leonia business suit burglar strikes again YOU SAW IT HERE FIRST: An afternoon business suit burglar caught on surveillance video a week and a half ago struck again in Leonia today — this time wearing beige and carrying papers instead of a briefcase. A homeowner in the 100 block  of Van Orden Avenue said she scared the bandit off when she pulled into her driveway around 1 o’clock this afternoon, Capt. Scott Tamagny told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. “He was trying to force his way in through a side door,” Tamagany said. “He was last seen running east on Van Orden toward Broad [Avenue].” * * * * * * YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Thanks in part to…

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