Kansas City Chiefs superfan Xaviar Babudar sentenced to 32 years in jail for bank robbery rampage

The infamous Kansas City Chiefs superfan known arsenic 'ChiefsAholic' has been sentenced to 32 years successful situation for a brazen slope robbery rampage crossed 7 US states.

Xaviar Babudar, 30, who was often seen successful a wolf costume astatine Chiefs games crossed America, had already been sentenced to 17-and-a-half years of jailhouse clip without parole past September.

But the Tulsa County territory attorney's bureau sought a longer condemnation and helium was contiguous sentenced successful an Oklahoma courtroom to 32 years down bars.

At the commencement of past year, Babudar pled blameworthy to charges of wealth laundering, transporting stolen spot crossed authorities lines, and slope robbery backmost successful February.

He was charged with robbing banks successful 7 states from 2022 to 2023, which his lawyer says was fueled by a gambling addiction and troubled puerility that near him homeless. 

Tulsa County territory lawyer Steve Kunzweiler said of the archetypal sentence: 'It was violative to maine 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.'

Babudar's attorneys, meanwhile, expressed relief, noting: '[The prosecution] wanted him to dice successful prison.

'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.' 

As a portion of his plea statement astatine the archetypal sentencing past September, Babudar volition person to wage implicit $530,000 successful restitution to the victims' fiscal institution.

Adding insult to injury, helium volition besides person to forfeit an autographed coating of Chiefs backmost Patrick Mahomes.

Back successful November 2023, Babudar pled not blameworthy to robbing a Tulsa Teachers Credit national subdivision successful Bixby, Oklahoma. He was accused of pointing a pistol astatine a slope teller and leaving with $150k successful December 2022. 

He was arrested that period and was held successful jailhouse until February 2023 erstwhile helium was released connected bond.

Babudar past chopped his ankle show and went connected the tally for 4 months earlier being caught by the FBI successful California. 

Officials were capable to nexus him backmost to respective different unsolved robberies successful Nebraska, Iowa, Tennessee, and Oklahoma.

In Iowa, specifically, Babudar was accused of stealing $70,000 from the Great Western Bank successful Clive.