Xaviar Babudar, aka ChiefsAholic, will get 32 years for Okla. theft

Notorious Kansas Metropolis Chiefs superfan Xaviar Babudar was sentenced in an Oklahoma courtroom Monday to 32 years in jail, 2½ years after authorities caught him within the state as he fled from a neighborhood financial institution theft.

Babudar, generally known as ChiefsAholic, is already serving a 17½-year federal sentence for robbing banks in seven states from 2022 to 2023. However the Tulsa County district lawyer’s workplace wished him to serve extra time and sought a life sentence for the 30-year-old. His sentence is concurrent, which means he’ll serve a further 14½ years in an Oklahoma penitentiary after his federal time period ends.

“It was offensive to me,” mentioned Tulsa County District Lawyer Steve Kunzweiler, “{that a} serial robber may victimize as many hardworking People as this man did all throughout the nation and solely obtain 17½ years from the federal authorities.

“My choice was for him to serve the remainder of his life in jail. He caught one other break in the present day, however no less than he will be serving some extra time, and my ideas are with the victims who proceed to be affected by his violence.”

In March, Babudar pleaded responsible in Oklahoma to theft with a firearm, assault whereas masked or disguised and eradicating an digital monitoring system in reference to a Dec. 16, 2022, armed theft of the Tulsa Academics Credit score Union.

Babudar’s attorneys, Brett and Jay-Michael Swab, expressed reduction on the sentencing determination. “[The prosecution] wished him to die in jail,” Jay-Michael Swab mentioned.

“Our whole place from the start is that we need to stay in a world the place all people’s handled equally, not based mostly on notoriety or social media presence.”

He mentioned his shopper’s theft spree was fueled by a playing habit and a troubled childhood that left him homeless. Swab mentioned Babudar is remorseful and has discovered Jesus throughout his incarceration.

In December 2022, en path to a Chiefs recreation in opposition to the Houston Texans, Babudar stopped in Bixby, Oklahoma, and pointed a black CO2 pistol at a financial institution teller on the credit score union earlier than fleeing with $150,000. He was caught shortly afterward and in February 2023 was launched on bond. A month later — after receiving $100,000 in winnings from two bets on the Chiefs — he eliminated his GPS system and went on the run.

After robbing banks in Sparks, Nevada, and El Dorado Hills, California, Babudar was caught by the FBI in California in July 2023. He was accused of a string of beforehand unsolved robberies all through the Midwest and in Tennessee.

In 2024, Babudar entered a plea deal within the Western District of Missouri federal courtroom and admitted to stealing greater than $800,000 in 11 robberies throughout seven states and laundering the proceeds via casinos.

Regardless of his request to be housed at a federal jail in Illinois, Babudar, based on courtroom paperwork, was despatched to a super-maximum safety jail in Colorado generally known as the “Alcatraz of the Rockies.” He has been within the Tulsa County Jail awaiting courtroom proceedings since January.

Earlier than his arrest, Babudar was probably the most standard superfans in Kansas Metropolis. Wearing a grey wolf go well with, he fired up recreation crowds, mugged for photos with kids, and cast a robust social media presence constructed on a persona of a hardworking, beneficiant bachelor.

Jay-Michael Swab mentioned Babudar didn’t deserve a life sentence, or any extra penalties, as a result of he by no means meant to harm anybody and did not use a “actual firearm.” Others in Oklahoma disagreed. Frank Frasier, a Tulsa lawyer who represents former financial institution teller Payton Garcia, mentioned his shopper needed to give up her job on the Tulsa Academics Credit score Union due to the trauma of that day. Frasier mentioned they felt strongly that Babudar must be punished to the utmost extent of the regulation.

Brett Swab mentioned his shopper is taking accountability for actions and can take “each avenue” to enhance himself and ultimately change into a productive member of society.

“No single or a number of sequence of occasions defines him as an individual,” he mentioned.