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Ch. 11 says no to Vince

TV reporter Vince DeMentri says he tried, unsuccessfully, to get his old job back at Ch. 11 after being cleared in a highly publicized chaffeur-slap case.

“I had some conversations with them, which were very pleasant, but basically they decided they wanted to continue to move forward,” DeMentri says.

DeMentri, no stranger to legal trouble, was fired last May, only three months after being hired by Ch. 11, when a chauffeur for the Bahamian ambassador to the UN said DeMentri slapped him in a parking-rage case and used a racial slur.

DeMentri was cleared of all charges on March 22 and says he approached Ch. 11 a few days later about hiring him back.

“I can’t tell you I’m not disappointed. I hoped to be able to complete the mission I started,” he says. “But I’m looking forward to the future.”

Ch. 11 officials had no comment.

DeMentri has been in trouble before.

On Sept. 13, 2001, he was arrested for impersonating an ATF agent at Ground Zero. That charge was eventually dismissed.

In 2008, he was fired from WCAU in Philadelphia for allegedly vandalizing co-worker Lori Delgado’s car. He sued Delgado and WCAU for slander and the case was later settled out-of-court.