Serial ‘butt-sniffing bandit’ busted again in California

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A serial butt-sniffer has allegedly struck again in California — less than a month after a similar incident.

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Calese Carron Crowder, 38, was arrested after he allegedly sniffed a woman’s behind Wednesday at a Walgreens in Burbank, Calif., Kabc reported.

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Store employees called police and the accused was arrested a few hours later, according to the outlet. He was booked in jail Thursday, public records from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department showed.

Crowder was dubbed the “butt-sniffing bandit” on social media following multiple alleged incidents, including one last month where police were called to a Nordstrom Rack store in the same city about a “suspicious individual loitering in the women’s department.”

Crowder had left the department store by the time officers arrived, but he was later spotted at a nearby Walmart.

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“Using the store’s surveillance system, officers monitored the suspect as he moved through various departments,” the Burbank Police Department said in a news release.

“While in the women’s section, the suspect was observed following a female customer, crouching near her and (allegedly) engaging in lewd behaviour by inappropriately sniffing her buttocks.”

Crowder was charged with one count of loitering with intent to commit a crime for the July 22 incident. His bail was set at $100,000. It is unclear why he was released again.

Crowder is a registered sex offender with a “documented history of similar arrests for lewd conduct in both Glendale and Burbank, dating back to 2021,” according to police.

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In 2023, Crowder made headlines for an alleged stalking incident caught on camera.

Michaela Witter shared footage of herself being followed by a man appearing to be Crowder at a Barnes and Noble bookstore in Burbank.

The video, which has more than 4.1 million views on TikTok, shows a man crouching down near Witter’s legs. When she asked him what he was doing, he told her that he was tying his shoes.

Witter said on the video that it looked like he was smelling her from behind and accused the man of doing the same thing to another woman inside the store.

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