Vince DeMentri

Vince DeMentri was an anchorman and reporter for the NBC owned-and-operated television station WCAU in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. There he was the anchor of "NBC 10 News at 4" and the weekday edition of "MyPHL News at Ten Powered by NBC 10". He is married to Pat James DeMentri, a morning show hostess for QVC, and has one daughter. DeMentri appeared in the 1998 film "U.S. Marshals" as a reporter. [cite web
url = http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120873/fullcredits
title = Full Cast and Crew for U.S. Marshals
accessdate = 2006-07-28
work = Internet Movie Database
publisher = IMDb ]

DeMentri graduated from Temple University with a B.A. in broadcast journalism. He began his career as a sportscaster for WPVI-TV in Philadelphia and worked for WOI-TV as a weekend anchor in 1989. He was later an investigative reporter for WDIV-TV in Detroit, Michigan and WPRI-TV in Providence, Rhode Island. DeMentri worked for WCBS-TV from 1993 to 2002. He joined WCAU in 2003. [cite web
url = http://www.nbc10.com/meetthenewsteam/2440168/detail.html
title = Vince DeMentri
accessdate = 2006-07-28
work = Personalities
publisher = NBC10.com |] DeMentri has won several awards, including seven Emmys for investigative reporting and a National Edward R. Murrow Award for his reporting on the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center. [cite web
url = http://www.nbc10.com/investigators/5331202/detail.html
title = The Investigators: Vince DeMentri
accessdate = 2006-07-28
date = 2006-03-24
publisher = NBC10.com |]

On September 13, 2001, while covering the aftermath of the World Trade Center attacks, DeMentri was arrested for impersonating an agent of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms in order to pass a police barricade while dressed in an ATF hat and jacket. The charge was later reduced to trespassing and later dismissed. [cite news
coauthors = Bowles, Pete and Sean Gardiner
url = http://www.newsday.com/ny-nycbs142365624sep14,0,3924765.story
title = WCBS Reporter Arrested
publisher = Newsday.com
date = 2001-09-14
accessdate = 2006-07-21 |]

In July 2006, NBC10 suspended DeMentri, presumably for an incident between him and Glenn "Hurricane" Schwartz. Schwartz had implored viewers not to act like Dementri in the wake of early July's flooding: Dementri had waded into dangerously deep flood waters. According to witnesses, Dementri, apparently upset about the incident, arrived back at the station where he confronted Schwartz and an altercation occurred, necessitating intervention from Doug Kammerer. [cite news
last = Klein
first = Michael
url = http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/entertainment/columnists/michael_klein/14973921.htm
title = NBC10's DeMentri wades into troubled waters
publisher = The Philadelphia Inquirer
date = 2006-07-06
accessdate = 2006-07-31 |] [cite news
last = Nachman
first = Laura
url = http://bradyresidence.com/071106.html
title = DeMentri Suspended
publisher = Bucks County Courier Times
date = 2006-07-11
accessdate = 2006-07-31 |]

Dementri was fired from NBC10 in August 2008 for alledgedly vandalizing a co-worker's vehicle and stealing possessions from morning anchor Lori Delgado. [cite news
last = Laura
first = Nachman
url = http://lauranachman.wordpress.com/2008/08/15/dementri-disappears-from-nbc10com/
title = DeMentri Disappears from NBC10.com
publisher = Laura Nachman
date = 2008-08-16
accessdate = 2006-07-31|]

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