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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Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Ex-con who witnessed brother’s Lodi murder sent to jail for threatening probation officers Ex-con who witnessed brother’s Lodi murder sent to jail for threatening probation officers Ex-con who witnessed brother’s Lodi murder sent to jail for threatening probation officers
Ex-con who witnessed brother’s Lodi murder sent to jail for threatening probation officers ONLY ON CVP: A career criminal who as a child witnessed one of Bergen County’s most infamous murders was sent to the county jail for 364 days for threatening to kill one female probation officer and going after another with a baseball bat. Michael Barbarino, 46, was four years old when his older brother, Joseph, raped and stabbed their 6-year-old brother, Vincent, at a deserted construction site a short walk from the tumultuous family’s Lodi home. It was his cooperation that helped solve the cold case and convict his brother, who already was serving 50 years in prison for raping an 11-yea…

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Ridgewood, NJ
Breaking News
Fire guts Ridgewood barn Fire guts Ridgewood barn Fire guts Ridgewood barn
Fire guts Ridgewood barn YOU SAW IT HERE FIRST: A fire reported by a passerby gutted a Ridgewood barn this evening. The property owners weren’t home when the Cottage Place blaze broke out around 6:45 p.m. Firefighters found the barn fully engulfed. No injuries were reported and a possible cause wasn’t immediately known. Also responding were village police, EMS and Emergency Services personnel. STORY / PHOTOS: Boyd A. Loving  

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Rivertowns, NY
Breaking News
Livery driver elbows officer in face at JFK, Port Authority police say Livery driver elbows officer in face at JFK, Port Authority police say Livery driver elbows officer in face at JFK, Port Authority police say
Livery driver elbows officer in face at JFK, Port Authority police say YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A 66-year-old Essex County man stopped for driving an illegal livery cab pushed one officer to the ground and elbowed another in the face at JFK Airport before being subdued, Port Authority police said this morning. Officers approached Emmanuel Atta of Irvington around 6:15 last night outside American Airlines Terminal 8 when he began flailing his arms, the authority’s Joseph Pentangelo told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. The 6-foot, 200-pound Atta then pushed an officer into a parked car and to the ground before running, Pentangelo said. Officers chased him down, but Atta the…

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Rutherford, NJ
Breaking News
Rutherford PD: Career burglar, 61, confesses to break-ins Rutherford PD: Career burglar, 61, confesses to break-ins Rutherford PD: Career burglar, 61, confesses to break-ins
Rutherford PD: Career burglar, 61, confesses to break-ins YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Rutherford police teamed up with a Bergen County Police sergeant yesterday to catch a 61-year-old career burglar who they said confessed to a pair of local break-ins after he was spotted trying to get into another house. Rutherford Officer Vincent Callan found Steven Benedek hiding behind a vinyl fence of a Darwin Avenue home after BCPD Sgt. Robert Carney saw him run from a rear yard on Washington Avenue, Police Chief John R. Russo said. Benedek, of Passaic, has a Bergen County criminal record that stretches back nearly 20 years, mostly for burglary. He later tol…

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Northern Valley, NJ
Breaking News
Fire destroys Norwood DPW garage Fire destroys Norwood DPW garage Fire destroys Norwood DPW garage
Fire destroys Norwood DPW garage YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A quick-spreading fire destroyed a Norwood Department of Public Works garage, torching four vehicles as well as heavy equipment and sending columns of thick black smoke visible from miles away late this afternoon into early evening. The fire broke out around 4:50 p.m. and quickly jumped to three alarms, extending to four bays of a six-bay storage area on Broadway near the municipal complex. It was fed by gasoline and diesel fuel, which ignited several explosions. PHOTO: Courtesy ANTHONY VENEZIA Among those responding: Norwood, Closter, Demarest, Haworth and …

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Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Former North Arlington cemetery worker gets 12 years for molesting girl, 10 Former North Arlington cemetery worker gets 12 years for molesting girl, 10 Former North Arlington cemetery worker gets 12 years for molesting girl, 10
Former North Arlington cemetery worker gets 12 years for molesting girl, 10 ONLY ON CVP: A North Arlington cemetery worker who a judge said “fractured a family” was sent to prison today for 12 years — ten of which he must serve before being eligible for parole — for molesting a 10-year-old girl eight years ago. Superior Court Judge James J. Guida told 44-year-old John Minervini that the teen he sexually assaulted suffered “the loss of her carefree high school years.” Her family as a whole may never fully recover from the emotional trauma they’ve endured, the judge said. Following a bench trial, Guida convicted Minervini in October of two separate and distinct i…

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Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
South Hackensack salon raided, employee charged with prostitution South Hackensack salon raided, employee charged with prostitution South Hackensack salon raided, employee charged with prostitution
South Hackensack salon raided, employee charged with prostitution ​YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: South Hackensack police and detectives from the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office raided a Route 46 business and arrested a Queens woman who they said was serving customers more than what the law allowed. “It’s supposed to be a hair and nail salon,” South Hackensack Police Capt. Robert Kaiser told CLIFFVIEW PILOT this afternoon. “An undercover officer went in and was solicited for sex.” A raid of The Greenish Spa quickly followed. Ying Z. Piao, 43, who worked there, was charged with engaging in prostitution and released on a summons, Kaiser said. Authorities a…

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Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
Breaking News
With car vandals caught, Saddle Brook police seek stolen Kiss hats With car vandals caught, Saddle Brook police seek stolen Kiss hats With car vandals caught, Saddle Brook police seek stolen Kiss hats
With car vandals caught, Saddle Brook police seek stolen Kiss hats YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Now that Saddle Brook police have cracked the case of the Kiss vandals, they’re trying to solve the theft of two dozen wool hats that they said are the same kind that the bandits used to cover their faces. The van the Kiss hats were reported stolen from (Courtesy  SADDLE BROOK PD) The hats were stolen from the back of a truck parked in a secluded spot in an industrial area of town near the NJ Transit tracks. The owner, after hearing the report of the auto body shop vandals, went to police to report the thefts. He’d been distributing the hats as promotional i…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
Final step for NJ police foundation mercy mission to restore Dominican girl’s sight Final step for NJ police foundation mercy mission to restore Dominican girl’s sight Final step for NJ police foundation mercy mission to restore Dominican girl’s sight
Final step for NJ police foundation mercy mission to restore Dominican girl’s sight SHOUT OUT: A five-month series of procedures restoring the eyesight of a now-1½-year-old girl will be completed within two weeks, after she is brought back to the U.S. by Joseph Occhipinti, the executive director of the National Police Defense Foundation. Occhipinti’s foundation first brought Scarling Cabrera – known as “Baby Scarling” — and her mother here for free surgery last fall by Brian Campolattaro, a pediatric ophthalmologist, at the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary on 14th Street in Manhattan. Campolattaro restored her sight in both eyes during that trip. Now she is returning …

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Teaneck, NJ
Breaking News
Teaneck considering ‘Yellow Dot’ program to help save crash victims Teaneck considering ‘Yellow Dot’ program to help save crash victims Teaneck considering ‘Yellow Dot’ program to help save crash victims
Teaneck considering ‘Yellow Dot’ program to help save crash victims YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Officials in Teaneck want their town to become one of the first in New Jersey to begin issuing yellow decals that immediately give first responders vital information on crash victims, saving critical time. The Township Council this week asked its administrator to investigate how Teaneck can establish a “Yellow Dot” program similar to one employed in more than 20 states, including New York and Connecticut. A measure signed into law by Gov. Christie earlier this year standardizes the use of round yellow stickers on a vehicle’s left rear window to indicate that the dr…

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