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'ChiefsAholic' Superfan Hit With Additional Prison Time In Oklahoma For Multi-State Bank/CU Robbery Spree
After being sentenced to federal prison last year, Kansas City Chiefs superfan Xaviar Babudar—known for his costumed persona “ChiefsAholic”—received an additional prison sentence this week in Oklahoma, stemming from convictions related to a multi-state spree of bank and credit union robberies, the Kansas City Star reported.
Babudar was sentenced to 32 years in prison in Tulsa County, after being found guilty of one count of robbery with a firearm, one count of assault while masked or disguised, and one count of removing an electronic monitoring device, the Kansas City Star said.
In September, Xaviar Babudar was sentenced to more than 17 years in federal prison by the U.S. District Court in Kansas City after pleading guilty to three charges tied to a series of robberies and attempted robberies at nearly a dozen banks and credit unions across seven states during 2022 and 2023. The charges included money laundering, transporting stolen property across state lines, and bank robbery.
In a separate case in Oklahoma, Tulsa County District Judge Michelle Keely sentenced Babudar to 32 years in prison, to run concurrently with his federal sentence, according to a statement from Tulsa County District Attorney Stephen Kunzweiler. Under the sentencing terms, the once-notorious Chiefs superfan will serve 17 and a half years in federal prison before being transferred to Oklahoma to complete the remaining 14 and a half years, the Kansas City Star said.
“The violence that Babudar exhibited to the employees of the Tulsa Teacher Credit Union was abhorrent,” Kunzweiler said in the release. “He is a serial robber who traumatized these victims and numerous other victims across this country.”
Babudar, famous for his Chiefs-themed wolf costume reminiscent of the team’s mascot K.C. Wolf, became a high-profile figure on social media and was a regular presence at Chiefs games from 2018 through 2021, prior to his arrest on the robbery charges, the Kansas City Star noted.
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