He was later an investigative reporter and anchor for WDIV-TV in Detroit, Michigan, WPRI-TV in Providence, Rhode Island, and WICS-TV in Springfield, Illinois.
In 1993, DeMentri joined CBS's flagship, WCBS-TV, in New York as a reporter, and became anchor of the station's weekend evening newscasts.
The prosecuting attorney in Missouri dropped the felony gun and alcohol offenses, allowing Busher to plead to the misdemeanor charge of disturbing the peace.
DeMentri’s series of stories was entitled "Ready, Set, Shred," or colloquially and locally known as "Shredgate.” Within days of the airing of DeMentri’s last on-air report, Mayor Mike Houston, who maintained he knew nothing about the secret plan, demanded the immediate retirement of Police Chief Robert Williams and the resignation of the City’s Corporation Counsel, Mark Cullen, who in an official email signed off on the act.
[4] DeMentri continued his "hardball" type of investigative journalism, and eventually engaged in surprise interviews of then-Springfield Mayor, J. Michael Houston, regarding the "Shredgate" scandal.