Chiefs Fan Known as ChiefsAholic Sentenced to 17.5 Years in Prison for Robberies
Adam WellsSeptember 5, 2024
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Xaviar Babudar, who is best known as Kansas City Chiefs fan ChiefsAholic, has received a prison sentence stemming from a string of bank robberies.
Per Nathan Pilling of the Kansas City Star, Babudar was sentenced to 17.5 years in federal prison during his sentencing hearing at U.S. District Court in Kansas City on Thursday.
ESPN’s Elizabeth Merrill and David Purdum noted last November that Babudar was originally arrested in December 2022 after being accused of robbing $150,000 from the Tulsa Teachers Credit Union in Bixby, Oklahoma.
When he was released on bond in February 2023, Babudar went on the run the following month after removing his ankle monitor. He was arrested in California in July 2023 and charged with bank theft and transporting stolen property across state lines for a previously unsolved March 2022 robbery in Iowa.
The FBI also linked Babudar to six other unsolved robberies or attempted robberies of banks or credit unions in Iowa, Minnesota, Tennessee and Nebraska between April and December 2022. Authorities said he stole more than $800,000.
Babudar pleaded guilty to one count of money laundering, one count of transporting stolen property across state lines in February in U.S. District Court. He also pleaded guilty to one count of bank robbery from a separate case that was filed in the Northern District of Oklahoma.
He was facing up to 20 years in prison for the money laundering and bank robbery charges, plus up to 10 years for transporting stolen property across state lines. He was also facing up to $1 million in fines and paying restitution.
ChiefsAholic often posted online hype videos to social media each week before games during the season.
