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 with a series of bank robberies across the Midwest.
Babudar pleaded guilty to charges of money laundering, transporting stolen property across state lines and bank robbery in February.
The 29-year-old man faced up to 50 years in prison for what federal prosecutor Teresa Moore called a “violent crime spree across the Midwest.”
“The defendant attempted to conceal hundreds of thousands of dollars in stolen cash by using it to gamble online and in casinos, but the odds caught up with him,” Moore said in a statement in February.
‘With today’s sentence, he will answer for the full extent 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 as the ‘ChiefsAholic,’ a Kansas City superfan in a wolf suit.
Babuar was directly linked to multiple robberies in Nebraska, Iowa, Tennessee and Oklahoma.
As part of his plea agreement, Babudar will be required to pay more than $530,000 in restitution to the victims’ financial institution.
To add insult to injury, he’ll also have to give up an autographed painting of Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes.
In November, Babudar pleaded not guilty to robbing a Tulsa Teachers Credit Union branch in Bixby, Oklahoma. He was accused of pointing a gun at a bank teller and walking away with $150,000 in December 2022.
He was arrested that month and remained in prison until February 2023, when he was released on bail.
Babudar then cut off his ankle monitor and went on the run for four months before being captured by the FBI in California.
Officials were able to link him 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.
The decision was announced just hours before the Chiefs were set to open their season against the Baltimore Ravens.