Kansas City superfan ‘Chiefsaholic’ sentenced to 17-and-a-half years in prison over bank robbery rampage… just hours before Super Bowl champions kick off 2024 season
Xaviar Babudar, who was often seen as the wolf-suit clad Kansas City Chiefs superfan known as ‘Chiefsaholic’ has been sentenced to 17-and-a-half years in prison without parole and three years of supervised release in connection to a number of bank robberies throughout the Midwestern United States.
Babudar pled guilty to charges of money laundering, transporting stolen property across state lines, and bank robbery back in February.
The 29 year old faced up to 50 years in prison for what US Attorney Teresa Moore called a ‘violent crime spree across the Midwest’.
‘The defendant tried to conceal hundreds of thousands of dollars in stolen cash by using it to gamble online and at casinos, but the odds caught up with him,’ Moore said in a release back in February.
‘With today’s conviction, he will be held accountable for the full scope of his criminal conduct, including his attempt to flee from justice.’
Xaviar Babudar has been sentenced to 17.5 years in prison for bank robberies in the Midwest
Babuar was known for being the ‘ChiefsAholic’ – a Kansas City super fan in a wolf suit
Babuar was directly tied to multiple robberies in Nebraska, Iowa, Tennessee, and Oklahoma
As a part of his plea agreement, Babudar will have to pay over $530,000 in restitution to the victims’ financial institution.
Adding insult to injury, he will also have to forfeit an autographed painting of Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes.
Back in November, Babudar pled not guilty to robbing a Tulsa Teachers Credit union branch in Bixby, Oklahoma. He was accused of pointing a pistol at a bank teller and leaving with $150k in December 2022.
He was arrested that month and was held in jail until February 2023 when he was released on bond.
Babudar then cut his ankle monitor and went on the run for four months before being caught by the FBI in California.
Officials were able to link him back to several other unsolved robberies in Nebraska, Iowa, Tennessee, and Oklahoma.
In Iowa, specifically, Babudar was accused of stealing $70,000 from the Great Western Bank in Clive.
This decision was announced just hours before the Chiefs were set to kick off their season against the Baltimore Ravens.
