California’s serial ‘butt sniffer’ sent back to jail after yet another arrest

A Southern California man with a history of arrests for sniffing women’s rear ends in public will spend at least the next four and a half months in jail after being caught – again.

Calese Carron Crowder, 38, was ordered to serve 135 days in Los Angeles County Jail on Tuesday after admitting to violating his parole, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office.

Crowder, a registered sex offender, was arrested in mid-August for a “butt-sniffing” incident inside an unspecified store in Burbank. That arrest came roughly a month after he was taken into custody for a similar offense at Burbank’s Empire Center shopping center.

In the July incident, police responded to a Nordstrom Rack following reports of a suspicious man loitering in the women’s department. By the time officers arrived, the suspect had already left the store. Crowder was later located and arrested at a nearby Walmart.

Surveillance footage showed Crowder following a female shopper inside the Nordstrom Rack, crouching behind her, and “engaging in lewd behavior by inappropriately sniffing her buttocks,” according to Burbank police.

At the time of his arrest, Crowder was on parole for a series of similar incidents in Burbank and Glendale dating back to 2021.

In August 2023, a woman named Michaela Witter posted a video on TikTok showing Crowder crouching behind her inside a Barnes & Noble in Burbank and appearing to sniff her backside. When confronted, Crowder claimed he was tying his shoes, Witter told KTLA.

The video eventually led to Crowder’s arrest.