After receiving a federal jail sentence last year, Xaviar Babudar, the Kansas City Chiefs superfan known for his costumed persona “ChiefsAholic,” was sentenced on Monday to additional prison time to be served in Oklahoma. Babudar was sentenced to 32 years in prison in Tulsa County, which will run concurrently to his 17.5-year federal sentence. Jasen Vinlove Jasen Vinlove-USA TODAY Sports
After receiving a federal prison sentence last year, Kansas City Chiefs superfan Xaviar Babudar, known for his costumed persona “ChiefsAholic,” was sentenced Monday to additional prison time to be served in Oklahoma, following convictions for a multi-state bank and credit union robbery spree.
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.
Last September, Babudar was sentenced to over 17 years in federal prison in U.S. District Court in Kansas City after pleading guilty to three charges in connection with a string of robberies or attempted robberies of nearly a dozen banks and credit unions across seven states in 2022 and 2023. They include a count of money laundering, a count of transporting stolen property across state lines, and a count of bank robbery.
In Oklahoma, Tulsa County District Judge Michelle Keely County issued Babudar’s 32-year sentence to run concurrently with his federal sentence, according to a news release from Tulsa County District Attorney Stephen Kunzweiler.
The infamous superfan will spend 17 and a half years in federal prison, and then be transferred to Oklahoma to serve his remaining 14 and a half years.
“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.
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On December 16, 2022, Babudar robbed the Tulsa Teachers Credit Union in Bixby wearing a mask and armed with a gun, according to the release. He used his firearm, later determined to be a BB gun, to demand that bank employees retrieve money from the safe.
Babudar left once he had the money, but was quickly apprehended by Bixby police, the release says.
Less than two months after his arrest, Babudar’s bond was lowered. He bonded out of jail on Feb. 8, 2023, and was ordered to wear an ankle monitor. Reports show Babudar removed his ankle monitor on March 25, 2023, the release says.
Babudar did not appear for a March 27 court date and was apprehended by federal authorities in July 2023 in California.
Federal prosecutors have said Babudar stole nearly $850,000 from banks and credit unions during a 16-month stretch, and in many of the robberies, brandished what appeared to be a gun.
As part of his plea in his federal case, Babudar admitted to robberies or attempted robberies in Clive, Iowa; Bixby, Oklahoma; Omaha, Nebraska; West Des Moines, Iowa; Nashville, Tennessee; Savage, Minnesota; Apple Valley, Minnesota; Papillion, Nebraska; Sparks, Nevada, and Eldorado Hills, California.
The Star’s Robert Cronkleton and Nathan Pilling contributed reporting to this story.