KANSAS CITY, Mo. – On Monday morning, a Tulsa County judge in Oklahoma sentenced Kansas City Chiefs superfan Xavier Babudar, widely known as “ChiefsAholic,” for a 2022 armed bank robbery in Bixby, Oklahoma.
According to the Tulsa County District Attorney’s Office, Babudar pleaded guilty to one count of robbery with a firearm, one count of assault while masked or disguised and one count of removing an electronic monitoring device.
As a result of these charges, Babudar will serve 32 years in the Oklahoma Department of Corrections. Additionally, this sentence is expected to run concurrently with his 17.5-year federal prison sentence ordered in 2024 after he also pleaded guilty to money laundering, bank robbery and transporting stolen property across state lines.
The district attorney said, on December 16, 2022, Babudar walked into the Tulsa Teachers Credit Union in Bixby holding a gun and wearing a mask with the intent to rob the bank.
After walking in, he then held the gun to the bank teller’s chest and demanded that she take him to the vault and give him the money inside.
Once he was given the money, the district attorney’s office said Babudar left the bank and was arrested by Bixby police shortly after. Investigations later discovered the gun Babudar used to threaten the workers was a BB gun.
Less than two months after his arrest, the district attorney’s office said Babudar’s bond was lowered, allowing him to be released in February 2023. While out on bond, he was ordered to wear an ankle monitor, but court records said he cut it off and went on the run.
He was eventually arrested by federal authorities in northern California in July 2023, about four months after he fled.
Since then, he has been in federal custody after pleading guilty to multiple criminal charges.
As part of his plea deal, more than a dozen of these charges were dismissed. Babudar was also ordered to pay at least $532,675 in restitution to the victims’ financial institutions and forfeit any property involved — including an autographed painting of Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes — to the government.
“The violence that Babudar exhibited to the employees of the Tulsa Teacher Credit Union was
abhorrent,” said Tulsa County District Attorney Steve Kunzweiler. “He is a serial robber who traumatized these victims and numerous other victims across this country.”
Now, Babudar will serve 17.5 years in a federal prison before being transferred to the Oklahoma Department of Corrections to serve his remaining 14.5 years.