Cops were on Calese Carron Crowder like flies on a turd after the alleged butt sniffer was seemingly up to his old bum sniffing antics in SoCal this week, TMZ has learned.

Burbank police confirm to TMZ … they have arrested 38-year-old Crowder after he was accused of sniffing someone’s rear end — an act he’s been booked for on more than one occasion.

Cops say the incident occurred on Wednesday night at a store in Burbank, California.

Crowder’s recent arrest comes mere weeks after CCC was arrested in Burbank for a similar incident, when surveillance footage allegedly showed him engaging in “lewd behavior” by sniffing a female shopper’s butt at a store at the Empire Shopping Center.

At the time, Crowder was charged by prosecutors with one count of loitering with intent to commit a crime … and ordered to pay $100,000 bail as a condition of his release.

Cops shared during the July case that Crowder had been on active parole and was a registered sex offender … having been busted for similar incidents over the years.