Overview
- A Los Angeles County judge on Tuesday sentenced 39-year-old Calese Crowder to 170 days in county jail for violating parole following his late-August arrest.
- Police arrested Crowder on Aug. 28 after stores in Glendale reported a man bending down near customers and officers matched surveillance footage to his location on the 100 block of South Brand Boulevard.
- The judge found Crowder violated a special parole condition that barred him from coming within six feet of people’s buttocks and ordered him to stay 100 yards from Big Sav, Marshalls and HomeGoods in Glendale.
- Crowder is a registered sex offender with a pattern of similar incidents in Glendale and Burbank dating to 2021, including a widely shared TikTok from August 2023; he has received short county-jail terms for parole violations in December 2025 and April 2026.
- The case highlights how police and courts are using retail surveillance and parole conditions to limit contact with potential victims, but recent coverage shows enforcement has so far produced parole-based jail time rather than new felony convictions.