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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Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Lawyer seeks psych exam for Fort Lee ex-con towing operator charged with threatening girlfriend with gun Lawyer seeks psych exam for Fort Lee ex-con towing operator charged with threatening girlfriend with gun Lawyer seeks psych exam for Fort Lee ex-con towing operator charged with threatening girlfriend with gun
Lawyer seeks psych exam for Fort Lee ex-con towing operator charged with threatening girlfriend with gun ONLY ON CVP: A Fort Lee towing operator caught with a trove of illegal guns could go to prison for more than 20 years if convicted of threatening to kill his girlfriend. His lawyer, however, said he will seek a psychiatric exam to determine whether Konstadin “Dean” Bitzas, 45, is fit to stand trial. Assistant Bergen County Prosecutor Vered Adoni offered Bitzas a minimum of 42 months in prison to settle a host of weapons charges and other offenses from a domestic dispute with his long-time girlfriend last Aug. 31. The situation is more serious for Bitzas because he’s already been convict…

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Northern Highlands, NJ
Breaking News
Police suspend search in suspected luring, say man knew Saddle Brook High School track runner Police suspend search in suspected luring, say man knew Saddle Brook High School track runner Police suspend search in suspected luring, say man knew Saddle Brook High School track runner
Police suspend search in suspected luring, say man knew Saddle Brook High School track runner UPDATE: Saddle Brook police called off the search for a driver who shouted to a high school track runner after discovering that the 29-year-old man is an acquaintance of the girl’s father. “The girl didn’t recognize the driver and therefore didn’t know who he was at the time,” Saddle Brook Police Chief Robert Kugler told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. “It is verified that he did engage the girl in conversation from the vehicle from a distance,” Kugler said, “but it is unverified that he actually said ‘Get in the car.’ “We close the case out as a misunderstanding,” the chief said, “but we do need to r…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Breaking News
Infant escapes injury in Fair Lawn T-bone crash Infant escapes injury in Fair Lawn T-bone crash Infant escapes injury in Fair Lawn T-bone crash
Infant escapes injury in Fair Lawn T-bone crash ONLY ON CVP: An infant strapped into a child seat escaped serious injury this afternoon after the car his mother was driving was broadsided by another in Fair Lawn this afternoon. Fair Lawn Police Capt. Robert Kneer(STORY / PHOTOS: Boyd A. Loving) Police Capt. Robert Kneer, who was one of the first emergency responders at the scene, comforted the mother and child after their Volkswagen sedan was rammed by a 2-door Honda at the intersection of Heights and Loretto avenues around 2:45 p.m. Fair Lawn Heavy Rescue responded along with police and an ambulance from Fuchs Medical Services (c…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Pascack Valley, NJ
Breaking News
Man, 50, who jumped from GWB after hour-long talk was from Montvale Man, 50, who jumped from GWB after hour-long talk was from Montvale Man, 50, who jumped from GWB after hour-long talk was from Montvale
Man, 50, who jumped from GWB after hour-long talk was from Montvale UPDATE: Authorities said a man who jumped from the George Washington Bridge over the weekend after rescuers spent more than an hour trying to talk him down was from Montvale. Montvale police got a call to do a security check on the distraught 50-year-old man just before 2:30 yesterday afternoon, but by then he’d made it to the bridge and climbed onto a southern rail, police sources told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. Officers trained in talking to potential jumpers had him engaged for more than an hour, the authority’s Joseph Pentangelo said. A friend who was there also tried to help, he said. Eventu…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Breaking News
Fair Lawn father of three killed in Edgewater riverfront cement truck crash Fair Lawn father of three killed in Edgewater riverfront cement truck crash Fair Lawn father of three killed in Edgewater riverfront cement truck crash
Fair Lawn father of three killed in Edgewater riverfront cement truck crash UPDATE: A Fair Lawn father of three was the driver killed when his cement truck slammed into a house in Edgewater’s Colony community, police confirmed today. Brian Carlson, 54 (above photo, right), was on a job delivering cement when his truck swerved down one of the riverfront community’s steep hills and rolled into the house, landing on its side, around 9:45 Saturday morning, Edgewater police said. Carlson, who was pinned in the cab, was pronounced dead at the scene. Besides his children — Kevin, Cory and Kassandra — he leaves a wife, Renate, both parents, a brother and two sisters, a…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
Breaking News
Franklin Lakes police say carnival worker had heroin, Xanax Franklin Lakes police say carnival worker had heroin, Xanax Franklin Lakes police say carnival worker had heroin, Xanax
Franklin Lakes police say carnival worker had heroin, Xanax YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Franklin Lakes police arrested a worker at the fourth annual Wyckoff & Franklin Lakes Lions carnival over the weekend for carrying heroin and Xanax. Nathaniel Oliver, 53, of Newark was released pending a court hearing on drug charges after police responded to a report of suspicious activity at the Market Basket Field on Saturday, Lt. John Bakelaar said this morning. Sgt. Robert Lyon and Officer Donald Wilson investigated.  

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Cop impersonator passed GWB traffic on shoulder with loaded gun, ammo, cuffs, ID, Fort Lee police say Cop impersonator passed GWB traffic on shoulder with loaded gun, ammo, cuffs, ID, Fort Lee police say Cop impersonator passed GWB traffic on shoulder with loaded gun, ammo, cuffs, ID, Fort Lee police say
Cop impersonator passed GWB traffic on shoulder with loaded gun, ammo, cuffs, ID, Fort Lee police say YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Burlington County man who Fort Lee police said was driving on the shoulder past backed-up traffic to the George Washington Bridge claimed he was a New York City police officer – and had a loaded gun, ammo, handcuffs and fake police ID cards in his car, authorities said this morning. Detective Philip Ross stopped the 2008 Jeep Wrangler “on the right shoulder passing vehicles stopped in heavy traffic” around 7:45 p.m. Saturday, Capt. Stanley Zon said. The driver, 44-year-old George Santos of Willingboro, “immediately identified himself as a police officer with the …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Delays continue in cold-case Cliffside Park rape, Fairview child sex assault Delays continue in cold-case Cliffside Park rape, Fairview child sex assault Delays continue in cold-case Cliffside Park rape, Fairview child sex assault
Delays continue in cold-case Cliffside Park rape, Fairview child sex assault ONLY ON CVP: One of the oldest cases in Bergen County’s criminal courts — that of a Fairview man for two cold-case sex assaults — has been postponed yet again. Busy schedules for both Assistant Bergen County Prosecutor Demtra Maurice and defense attorney Brian Neary have contributed to the delays in the trial of Jose Augusto Masmela-Sarmiento in Hackensack. It’s now scheduled for January. Detectives first arrested Masmela-Sarmiento in March 2012 on charges of molesting the girl between May 2002 and April 2005. New counts were added after a woman, seeing the Colombian native’s mugshot …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Multiple victims in Fair Lawn crash Multiple victims in Fair Lawn crash Multiple victims in Fair Lawn crash
Multiple victims in Fair Lawn crash ONLY ON CVP: Two ambulances were required to transport the victims of a Fair Lawn crash to Hackensack University Medical Center this afternoon. Rescue workers freed the most seriously injured of the victims from a Volvo sedan, which collided with a Honda at the intersection of Plaza Road and Fair Lawn Avenue just before 1 p.m. Responding were Fair Lawn police, EMS and Heavy Rescue Squad members. Both vehicles were removed by tow trucks. STORY / PHOTOS: Boyd A. Loving    

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Valley, NJ
Breaking News
Bergenfield man could be free in 7 years for repeated sex assaults on boy, 5 Bergenfield man could be free in 7 years for repeated sex assaults on boy, 5 Bergenfield man could be free in 7 years for repeated sex assaults on boy, 5
Bergenfield man could be free in 7 years for repeated sex assaults on boy, 5 ONLY ON CVP: A kitchen worker from Bergenfield whose repeated sex assaults on a 5-year-old boy over a decade ago ignited a “chain of acting-out sexual behavior” by the victim and another family member was sentenced to 10 years in state prison on Friday. Jorge Molina, 60, admitted putting the boy’s penis in his mouth and touching his genitals through his clothing in exchange for the sentence and a dismissal by prosecutors of charges that he forced the boy to do the same to him. Assistant Bergen County Prosecutor Marybel Mercado Ramirez said the plea agreement was the best resolution under …

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