Crookston Woman Charged After 3-Year-Old Found Alone
Crookston (trfnews.i234.me) — Bree Lynn Olson faces a gross misdemeanor child neglect charge in Polk County District Court.
Prosecutors allege Olson failed to provide proper supervision for her 3-year-old child on July 15, 2026.
The child was found alone near West Robert Street in Crookston, according to the criminal complaint.
The charge carries up to 364 days in jail, a $3,000 fine, or both.
Child Found Near Bridge
The complaint says a woman driving to work spotted the young child around 7:05 a.m.
She reported seeing the child walking in grass near West Robert Street while wearing only a diaper.
The child then ran toward a bridge and down the riverbank, according to the complaint.
The woman was able to get the child to come with her.
Law enforcement said the child was active and nonverbal.
Authorities were initially unable to determine the child’s name or identify a parent.
Polk County Social Services was contacted while investigators worked to identify the child.
Investigators Contact Olson
Authorities later believed the child belonged to Bree Lynn Olson.
The complaint says investigators called Olson but received no answer.
Social services workers later identified Olson as the child’s mother, according to the complaint.
The child was placed with Polk County Social Services.
Authorities went to Olson’s home around 8:55 a.m.
The complaint says three other children were looking outside through a window.
Investigators reported the window screen was removed.
Two young children were standing just inside the open window, according to the complaint.
Authorities believed the children could have climbed through it.
The children told investigators that Olson was sleeping inside the home.
They woke Olson, who then came to the door.
Police told Olson the 3-year-old had been found and was safe.
Earlier Incident Cited
The complaint also describes an earlier incident involving the same child.
On May 21, 2026, a bus driver found the child walking near East Third Street.
Authorities identified the child and Olson during that earlier incident.
The new case alleges Olson willfully failed to provide supervision appropriate for the child’s age.
Prosecutors say the alleged lack of supervision could have caused substantial harm.
Case Filed in Polk County
Olson is charged under Minnesota Statute 609.378.
The statute covers neglect involving necessary supervision, food, shelter, health care, or other basic needs.
The case is filed under court number 60-CR-26-1159.
Public court records can be searched through Minnesota Court Records Online.
The criminal complaint contains allegations and is not a finding of guilt.
Olson is presumed innocent unless proven guilty in court.
I’m Adrian Cole reporting for TRF News.
Copyright 2026 TRF News. All rights reserved.
She also smokes weed around her kid, her son grabs alcohol bottles and tries to drink from it and she laughs about it. She neglects that little boy so bad I literally HAD to call the cops on her once and she retaliated by telling the police I drove drunk, with my son in the car (my son was never there btw, I’d never let my child around someone that can’t even keep their own drawls clean). She thought I called to cops cause she bumped parts with my man 3+ years ago😭. Anyway, back on track… mind you I didn’t even have the chance to drink anything cause she was guzzling down my bottle, tried to say my husband had to follow me home when we only had one car at that time. She’s funky and was never fresh lmfao. She’s done this before and will do it again, she also brags about it “My kid knows how to take care of himself”… at 3?
She tried to lock her son in his room while I was there and I heard slapping noises coming from the room and her yelling “GO TO BEDDDD!” Shut the door on him and he came right out and then said something like “See what I deal with?” you wouldn’t “deal” with that if you didn’t let him walk all over you because you’re too lazy to be a parent.
There’s SO many things wrong with this girl it’s insane, not to mention her doo doo drawls at her grown age😂.
OH and the Crookston police took selfies with her after I had called her on for negligence. Do ya’ll believe me now😂?
Nasty asf… please take that poor child
Bree Lynn shits not funny at all honestly, your disgusting, stay off the internet fr cause you just be on here talking when you really need to get your shit together! I get there are kids living in worse situations and scenarios so you must feel like a great mother, but a great mother would never put her child through something like this especially as a three-year-old. you voice your opinion about a lot of things when really you should be the last one to talk, like how old are you?? On here laugh reacting to shii just proves how damn pathetic you are as a “woman”
Just saw you sitting outside of Walmart on the curb with your baby boy so here’s a good start… work on getting a car!!
This woman needa diaper FR😒
Why was her child alone?
Ick this girl sounds disgusting and she’s out of jail?!!!! wtf is wrong with POLK county. More worried about drugs it’s sad.
Polk county has such an ass backwards way of dealing with anything. She doesn’t deserve to have kids. That poor baby could have been hit by a car or fell in the river. Good old polk county giving ppl a slap on the wrist for committing horrible acts but throwing the book at first time offenders like myself. Crookston is the town who let a man off a beastiality charge cuz he plead guilty to a lesser charge.
no it is not ok she needs to be charged hard
Hahaaa mother of the year! NOT!! Pretty pathetic. She sits and talks shit about other parents on FB ! Maybe she should practice what she preaches!!
You can tell the amount of actual psycho by their smiles
My first thought was, that dumb bitch is smiling about it too? Take that child away, but after reading the HIDDEN (why?!?) COMMENTS….?!
TAKE THAT CHILD AWAY. PERIOD.
I need a permit to go fishing But people like This can lay down and have umpteen children.
😒🙄 make it make sense.
Why have kids if this is who tf you are.
So then it should be a felony….
Someone please take her kid away and her ability to have more! When I knew of her she didn’t even have running water, or food in her fridge, just liquor and she had no job. Poor baby needs help, and he’s helpless.
Wow nice smile didn’t you just call in the other day to Hugo’s deli saying u couldn’t work bc your mom wouldn’t watch ur child
Callie Wooldridge it’s always the neglectful parents telling everyone else how to parent 🙄
Her son was found by the river bank by a woman going to work at 7:00am. She was sleeping in her house while her son wandered off, this also happened once before two months beforehand. And no just the boy is hers. Either way he’s not being properly taken care of and he could have fallen into the river. I’m assuming you probably talked to her? She’s a chronic liar, if you did🤷🏽♀️.
Wow poor kids, funny how you called me n said you couldn’t come to work the other day at Hugo’s deli cuz you r mom wouldn’t watch your kid. Guess you couldn’t either.
Let the inmates take care of her when she gets to where she’s going just so they put out word on her and all the other inmates will take care of her !!!
Puke …. smiling like its funny