BREAKING: Former Lyco detective's home searched in probe of YouTube cold case videos – NorthcentralPA.com

BREAKING: Former Lyco detective’s home searched in probe of YouTube cold case videos  NorthcentralPA.com

Authorities searched the Clinton County home of former Lycoming County detective Kenneth Mains this week, seizing computers, storage devices and case materials after a warrant alleged he retained and disseminated Williamsport, Pa. — A former local detective, well known for investigating cold cases, is under investigation regarding videos he created and posted on Youtube about those cases. Authorities searched the Jersey Shore home of former Lycoming County detective Kenneth Mains today, seizing computers, storage devices and case materials after a warrant alleged he retained and disseminated confidential investigative records, photographs, and trial exhibits from cold case files for use on his YouTube channel. The focus of some of those videos was the September 1994 unsolved murder of Gail Matthews and her daughter Tamara Berkheiser in Williamsport.

The application and affidavit of probable cause, approved by the Lycoming County District Attorney Tom Marino, was filed Oct. 20, by Detective Tyson Havens of the Lycoming County Narcotics Enforcement Unit. It sought authority to search Mains’ person and the residence at 173 Starlite Lane, including garages and outbuildings, for law enforcement records, police reports, trial exhibits, crime scene photographs, PennDOT photographs, recorded interviews, and related digital storage devices. Mains served as a Lycoming County detective from May 9, 2011, until March 9, 2018, with access to case files and evidence from prior homicide