Serial 'Butt Sniffer' Arrested Again, This Time in Burbank

BURBANK, CA — A 38-year-old registered sex offender has been arrested for the second time in two months for allegedly loitering at a Burbank store and sniffing women's buttocks, authorities said.

Sheriff's inmate records show Calese Carron Crowder of Glendale was arrested at about 10:45 p.m. Wednesday by Burbank police, who told NBC4 that Crowder allegedly sniffed the behind of a woman inside a Walgreens store.

He was booked into the Burbank Police Department at 1:08 a.m. Thursday but it appeared Burbank dropped its case on grounds of an insufficient complaint. The inmate records showed that Crowder was being held without bail by the California Department of Corrections on a code that indicates he was on parole, according to the legal information website Avvo.com.

On July 22, officers responded to Nordstrom Rack at 1601 N. Victory Place following reports of a suspicious individual roaming through the women's department and sexually harassing a female customer, according to Burbank police.

Crowder had left the store before officers arrived, but they tracked him down at a Walmart store at 1301 N. Victory Place, where they took him into custody.

"Using the store's surveillance system, officers monitored the suspect as he moved through various departments. While in the women's section, the suspect was observed following a female customer, crouching near her, and engaging in lewd behavior by inappropriately sniffing her buttocks," police said in a statement.

Crowder, a registered sex offender currently on parole, has a history of similar offenses in Glendale and Burbank dating back to 2021, according to police.

He was arrested for allegedly peeping into a family's home in Glendale in 2023. In August of that year, a woman posted a TikTok video that went viral allegedly showing Crowder crouching behind her and attempting to sniff her at a Barnes and Noble bookstore in Burbank.

— City News Service