SALINE CO.—New information in a story Disclosure has been following for a number of years shows that a local girl with a penchant for cops and wealthy businessmen is wreaking havoc in the lives of all of them, and apparently going on as if none of it is going to affect her chances at getting to keep her kids.
Filed in the divorce case of Trooper Brett Lane and his errant but estranged badge-bunny wife, Brittany Lane, who is only 24 years of age, has been material gathered through an investigation into what the missus Lane has been doing in the two years she’s been separated from her husband after a violent outburst one morning in July 2011. While the material was apparently under seal when the file was examined May 31, it had already been sent to Disclosure via electronic image in early May…and what the investigation showed was a textbook case of a bad influence, not only for kids, but for anyone coming into the sphere of existence of Brittany Lane.
Self-obsessed, hedonistic and petulant, the young woman is shown, through interviews with those closest to her as well as by her own behavior (shown in the accompanying photo) and handwriting (shown below) to likely be a danger to herself and those around her; but worse, the type of people she’s taken up with, seemingly ‘incidentally,’ have been shown to be somewhat dangerous as well. Now, all that remains is to convince a court of this, but that might prove to be more difficult than the evidence makes it seem, as the Brittster’s behavior, while shocking to most, has become more and more acceptable to mainstream society, who glorifies the clueless and most brazen across the pop culture spectrum.
‘Kept’ in Johnson County
Brittany made headlines before getting into a physical altercation in July of 2011 with her husband at their Raleigh home, but nothing the likes of which caught the attention of folks when the trooper took out an OP against his young wife, who had come in that morning at about 8 a.m., having had a night out with her boyfriend, Chris E. Schimp, 52, whom Brittany had long been rumored to be seeing.
Schimp is considered an entrepreneur of sorts in the Raleigh/Eldorado area, having developed Compressed Energy Systems, a natural gas company that pulls methane gas out of old mines in the area and puts it on a pipeline for use after processing.
The operation has made Schimp a lot of money, which is, according to friends of Brittany Lane, one of the main attractions she has to him.
Schimp, who is married and has adult children, purchased a home for Brittany shortly after the split with her husband the trooper. The house was an exclusive place in an exclusive address: Lake of Egypt, outside Goreville in Johnson County. Brittany moved in with her children as a “kept” woman in 2011, and, according to court paperwork, soon began conducting herself along the lines of what got her in trouble in the first place: she discovered that she had a neighbor, Dusty Lingle, who was a police officer in Marion, up in Williamson County not far from Goreville.
And the rest of the antics add up to a disaster for the kids of the flagrant woman, whose husband, apparently, is trying to get them out of the home and away from her…even though the older of the two isn’t his, and the younger might not be, either.
The kept woman’s sister interviewed
The interviews, according to documents Disclosure received, were begun a year ago in April with Kathy Lane, Brett Lanes mother, although those documents were not received by Disclosure.
But a more pertinent interview came from Brittany’s own sister, Adrienne Holland, who, documents show, was interviewed by phone May 30, 2012.
At the time of the interview, she was living in Goreville at the residence Schimp had purchased for her sister, having moved in to the place for an undisclosed reason in March of that year.
Holland had nothing negative to say about Brett Lane, noting he was really a very quiet person. She was “somewhat critical of Brett as she said when Kingston acts up with bad language or sexual behavior, that she did not think that Brett was forceful enough to stop Kingston from continuing.”
Kingston is Brittany’s five-year-old son by who was believed to have been Jeff Cain in Eldorado, but who was proven to NOT be in August of 2010 in a family case in Saline County court, filed after Brittany beat up Cain’s new wife during a visitation; his paternity is unknown.
Brittany’s sister Adrienne said Brittany “Is generally a good mother in the sense that she does not harm her children and takes care of them.”
She commented, however, that Brittany’s lifestyle is “messed up.”
Messed up; lost the
little boy his friends
Asked to clarify, Adrienne said “Brittany had been with Chris Schimp in a sexual relationship both with and without the children present” and stated that “there had been other men in the house with and without the children present, and other men were involved in sexual relationships with Brittany as well.” Adrienne didn’t know if there were money or gifts involved in the other relationships, but Brittany had begun dating Jonathan Smith just after Adrienne moved in, even while “having an affair with her neighbor, Dusty Lingle, at the time Adrienne moved in.”
Lingle, it turned out, was the “father of Kingston’s best friend Nick.”
Once the affair was discovered, Adrienne’s interview documents show, the friendship between Kingston and Nick was “terminated by the Lingles and Brittany’s efforts at reestablishing that friendship for the children was refused.”
Adrienne advised that she was aware of another child in Kingston’s class that was a friend to Kingston out of the relationship between the children and this was also ended because of the relationship between Brittany and Dusty Lingle.
“She said it was very hard on Kingston when he no longer had the friends he had enjoyed before, and could not understand the reason why the friendships had ended.”
Bad mouth and likes being nekkid
Adrienne advised that her sister didn’t work, and that Schimp had arranged for her to get a job somewhere but she never turned in the application nor followed it up; going to school at a junior college met a similar fate, Adrienne said, and advised that her sister “had no real goal in mind.”
She then elaborated on the “bad mouth” the 5-year-old had on him, stating he “speaks in a way that, in her opinion, is filthy.” She herself had scolded him for his language. She said that Kingston knows about sexual behavior and knows that he has exhibited it to other children, advising she hadn’t observed it herself, but that she’d been told it had happened at her mother’s home with one of her younger siblings.
“Kingston gets out of the shower and while he is naked runs around and seeks out people to look at him,” Adrienne reported. “He gets that from Brittany, as she has always done that throughout her lifetime…she enjoys being naked and wants to be noticed.”
He also was allowed to view Brittany’s breast augmentation job, Adrienne reported, and Brittany “saw nothing wrong with that.”
The bigwig effect
Adrienne opined that while the interview was going on, Brittany was moving out of the Goreville house to move in with Smith, and Adrienne had reported this to Schimp as she felt her sister was “playing Chris” in order to continue to get money from him, which “wasn’t fair to Chris, as he gave (Brittany) a weekly allowance and was unaware of the relationship with Jonathan Smith.”
Asked if there was any concern of drug use during the time she’d been living there, Adrienne advised that Brittany asked her to join in using cocaine and commented that she “knew how to get it.” She said they did not do so, however, because Adrienne refused.
Dusty the cop
One of the earlier interviews was with Dusty Lingle.
Conducted by phone on March 9, 2012, Lingle indicated that he was acquainted with Brittany because they were neighbors. He identified himself as a police officer and said that his children were friends with Brittany’s children; that Brittany is a good mother; and that she is doing the best she can.
He also advised that he had “no concerns with her as a mother” and that she had a “clean and beautiful home, the kids were well-fed and no one lived in the home except Brittany and the two children.”
Lingle said he’d never met Brett but “knew him by reputation because of being a police officer” and he “did not indicate that there was any further relationship between himself and Brittany.”
In more recent activity with Lingle, however, he is no longer on the job in Marion.
This came about earlier this year (February) when in-house video recorded on Feb. 10 showed Lingle and another officer, Bryan Dernatti, “handle an arrestee in a manner that appeared to both violate the law as well as departmental policy.”
Lingle resigned shortly thereafter; Dernatti was on administrative leave at last check (March 20 was the last available material on the subject) pending outcome of disciplinary proceedings.
The case was brought to the state’s attorney in Williamson, Chuck Garnati, who isn’t afraid to bring charges against police officers in his county. The matter had been turned over to the FBI on Feb. 15, having been initiated by ISP.
It’s unknown if Brett Lane was involved in the initial investigation in any manner.
(Next month: the interviews with Schimp and Smith, and an incident that took place in Saline County involving local law enforcement officials there, as the article continues in various parts).