Jobless : Veteran anchor Vince DeMentri , 50 , was fired from WICS-TV in Illinois - his third job in less than seven years - after he got into a brawl with a reporter . Trouble seems to follow news anchor Vince DeMentri wherever he goes . The veteran TV presenter was fired from his third job in less than seven years after he got into a fight with a colleague from the station WICS in Springfield , Illinois . The incident took place at around 12.30am last Wednesday in the parking lot of a Hooters restaurant on Horizon Drive . Police officers were called to the scene after getting reports of an altercation between two people , later identified as DeMentri and WICS reporter Garrett Brngr . One of the pugilists was reportedly observed bleeding from the nose , according to Illinois Times . By the time police arrived , the brawlers had left in their respective vehicles , a black BMW and a black Jeep . Police later pulled over one of the pugnacious newsmen , who claimed that he had fallen from a stool . This is only the latest in a series of unfortunate events involving the 50-year-old DeMentri . The award-winning journalist was fired from NBC10 in Philadelphia in 2008 for allegedly keying a co-anchor 's Lexus , stalking her and hiding items from her desk after two-year their extramarital affair ended . Pugilists : DeMentri ( left ) and Garrett Brngr ( right ) got into a brawl on the morning of February 24 , leaving one of them with a bloody nose . Both have since been terminated . Fisticuffs : Police were called to this Hooters restaurant in Springfield , Illinois , after getting a report of an altercation between two people . Details of the ugly breakup were revealed after DeMentri claimed in court papers that he was unfairly fired over the tryst while his former paramour , then-28-year-old Lori Delgado , was allowed to keep her job . DeMentri then moved on to WPIX in New York , which also let him go in 2010 after he was accused of slapping the driver of the Bahamian ambassador to the United Nations in a spat over a parking spot . The quick-tempered reporter was slapped with an assault charge but was later acquitted . Checkered past : DeMentri was sacked from NBC10 in 2008 over an affair with his married colleague Lori Delgado ( pictured ) DeMentri , a Temple University graduate , got his start in TV journalism working as a sports producer for WPVI-TV . Over the course of his 20-year career , he ’ s picked up seven Emmys and a pair of Edward R. Murrow awards . Two days after the September 11 attacks , DeMentri was arrested for impersonating a federal agent in a bid to access Ground Zero , reported the New York Daily News . A charge of trespassing against the intrepid news gatherer was later thrown out . Speaking to the Daily News after his 2010 arrest , DeMentri said that he was being unfairly portrayed in the media as 'one of the bad boys , ' even though he 's never been convicted of any crime . The station manager of WICS-TV in Illinois told the State Journal Register in 2012 that they had looked into the incidents involving DeMentri , which turned out to be a 'non-issue ' for them . ‘ I don ’ t think you can judge anybody ’ s character by an incident or two in life , ’ DeMentri said at the time . Both DeMentri and Brgnr 's biographies have been removed from WICS-TV 's website since the fisticuffs in the Hooters parking lot last week . ‘ Vince DeMentri and Garrett Brnger are no longer with the station , ’ WICS General Manager Rick Lipps said in a Facebook post .
WICS-TV in Springfield , Illinois , dismissed anchor Vince DeMentri , 50 , and reporter Garrett Brngr over the brawl . DeMentri was hired by station in 2012 despite his checked past . He had been fired from a previous job at WFLA for making racist comments on air. In 2010 , DeMentri was terminated by WPIX in New York after he got into a fight with the driver of a UN ambassador over a parking spot .