Chiefs superfan gets 32 years for Okla. robbery

Infamous Kansas City Chiefs superfan Xaviar Babudar was sentenced successful an Oklahoma courtroom Monday to 32 years successful prison, 2 and a fractional years aft authorities caught him successful the authorities arsenic helium fled from a section slope robbery.

Babudar, known arsenic ChiefsAholic, is already serving a 17½-year national condemnation for robbing banks successful 7 states from 2022 to 2023. But the Tulsa County territory attorney's bureau wanted him to service much clip and sought a beingness condemnation for the 30-year-old. His condemnation is concurrent -- astatine the aforesaid clip -- meaning he'll service an further 14½ years successful an Oklahoma penitentiary aft his national condemnation ends.

"It was violative to me," said Tulsa County territory lawyer Steve Kunzweiler, "that a serial robber could victimize arsenic galore hard-working Americans arsenic this feline did each crossed the state and lone person 17½ years from the national government.

"My penchant was for him to service the remainder of his beingness successful prison. He caught different interruption today, but astatine slightest he's going to beryllium serving immoderate further time, and my thoughts are with the victims who proceed to beryllium tormented by his violence."

In March, Babudar pleaded blameworthy successful Oklahoma to robbery with a firearm, battle portion masked oregon disguised, and removing an physics monitoring instrumentality successful transportation with a December 16, 2022, equipped robbery of the Tulsa Teachers Credit Union.

Babudar's attorneys, Brett and Jay-Michael Swab, expressed alleviation successful the sentencing decision. "[The prosecution] wanted him to dice successful prison," Jay-Michael Swab said.

"Our full presumption from the opening is that we privation to unrecorded successful a satellite wherever everybody's treated equally, not based connected notoriety oregon societal media presence."

He said his client's robbery spree was fueled by a gambling addiction and a troubled puerility that near him homeless. Swab said Babudar is remorseful and has recovered Jesus during his incarceration.

In December 2022, en way to a Chiefs crippled against the Houston Texans, Babudar stopped successful Bixby, Oklahoma, and pointed a achromatic CO2 pistol astatine a slope teller astatine the recognition national earlier fleeing with $150,000. He was caught soon aft and successful February 2023 was released connected bond. A period aboriginal -- aft receiving $100,000 successful winnings from 2 bets connected the Chiefs -- helium removed his GPS instrumentality and went connected the run.

After robbing banks successful Sparks, Nevada, and El Dorado Hills, California, the FBI caught Babudar successful California successful July 2023. He was accused of a drawstring of antecedently unsolved robberies passim the Midwest and successful Tennessee.

In 2024, Babudar entered a plea woody successful the Western District of Missouri national tribunal and admitted to stealing much than $800,000 successful 11 robberies crossed 7 states and laundering the proceeds done casinos.

Despite his petition to beryllium housed astatine a national situation successful Illinois, Babudar, according to tribunal documents, was sent to a super-maximum information situation successful Colorado that is known arsenic the "Alcatraz of the Rockies." He has been successful the Tulsa County Jail awaiting tribunal proceedings since January.

Before his arrest, Babudar was 1 of the astir fashionable superfans successful Kansas City. Dressed successful a grey wolf suit, helium fired up crowds, mugged for pictures with children, and forged a beardown societal media beingness built connected a persona of a hardworking, generous bachelor.

Jay-Michael Swab said Babudar did not merit a beingness sentence, oregon immoderate further penalties, due to the fact that helium ne'er intended to wounded anyone, and helium didn't usage a existent firearm. Others successful Oklahoma disagreed. Frank Frasier, a Tulsa lawyer who represents erstwhile slope teller Payton Garcia, said his lawsuit had to discontinue her occupation astatine the Tulsa Teachers Credit Union due to the fact that of the trauma of that day. Frasier said they felt powerfully that helium should beryllium punished to the maximum grade of the law.

Brett Swab said his lawsuit is taking work for actions and volition instrumentality "every avenue" to amended himself and yet go a productive subordinate of society.

"No azygous oregon aggregate bid of events defines him arsenic a person," helium said.