Xaviar Babudar, better known to football fans as “Chiefsaholic,” was sentenced on Monday, May 12, in an Oklahoma courtroom to 32 years behind bars for robbing a bank back in 2022. The guy who used to show up at Kansas City Chiefs games in a wolf costume has now traded game-day cheers for prison time — and not just for this one robbery.
The 30-year-old superfan was nailed for a robbery at the Tulsa Teachers Credit Union in Bixby, Oklahoma. According to reports from KSL News and 2 News Oklahoma, this robbery wasn’t just a one-off. It was part of a spree across multiple states. Even though this Oklahoma sentence is 32 years, Babudar is already serving a 17-year federal prison term for a whole string of other bank robberies. The way it works out, he’ll serve more than 14 years in Oklahoma after he finishes up his federal time.
In court, Babudar pleaded guilty to several charges, including robbery with a firearm, assault while masked, and even ditching his electronic ankle monitor. His crime spree had a bit of a cinematic twist. In December 2022, he hit the Bixby bank while on the way to a Chiefs game, held a gun to a teller, and made off with $150,000 before getting caught. That arrest would be just the beginning.
Turns out, Babudar admitted to robbing or trying to rob 11 banks across eight different states. He got picked up again in July 2023 and eventually confessed to the full spree in early 2024.
Tulsa County District Attorney Steve Kunzweiler didn’t hold back. “The violence that Babudar exhibited to the employees of the Tulsa Teacher Credit Union was abhorrent. He is a serial robber who traumatized these victims,” he said in a statement to PEOPLE. Kunzweiler had pushed for a life sentence, but the judge noted that Babudar used a BB gun during the robbery, not a real firearm, which played a role in reducing the sentence.
The story doesn’t end there. Babudar’s legal team said he was driven by a gambling addiction and a rough childhood that left him homeless. They claimed he’s remorseful and has “found Jesus” since being locked up.
As part of the fallout, Babudar was hit with a massive financial penalty, too. In April 2024, he was ordered to pay $10.8 million to the bank teller he threatened with the fake gun. On top of that, a federal judge sentenced him to 17 years and six months in prison last September and told him to cough up over half a million dollars in restitution to the banks he stole from.
According to prosecutors, most of the money he stole ended up going through casinos and online gambling. His spree stretched across Iowa, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Tennessee, Minnesota, Nevada, and California between 2022 and 2023.
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