Big-spending Superfan Charged With Robbing a Bank Goes Missing

Before this year’s Super Bowl, the Kansas City football superfan known as Chiefsaholic was a source of fascination in the sports world. How, people wondered, did a man known for wearing a wolf mask to games and placing large bets end up in jail on charges that he robbed a bank in Tulsa, Okla.?

Now Chiefsaholic, known legally as Xaviar Babudar, is at the heart of a much simpler mystery: Where is he?

Babudar, who had been released from jail while awaiting trial, failed to appear at a hearing Monday morning, according to court records. His court-ordered GPS monitor was found in a wooded area in southern Tulsa with the strap cut off.

Michael Lloyd, the bail bondsman who paid Babudar’s $80,000 bond to secure his release from jail last month, said the unit’s tamper alert went off around 8:30

Chiefsaholic attended most of Kansas City’s games. The character was created by Xaviar Babudar, right.

p.m. Saturday. Lloyd went to Babudar’s hotel but his room was empty.

Babudar’s lawyer, Tracy Tiernan, said: “I don’t know anything about it. I reached out to him and have not had a response.” Babudar, 28, wore a wolf mask and outlandish shirt and pants to nearly every Chiefs game, including the team’s Super Bowl victory in February 2020.

He cultivated an image as a high roller by frequently posting slips from bets worth thousands of dollars on social media, where he had tens of thousands of followers.

When fans questioned how he afforded his lifestyle, Babudar responded that he managed multiple warehouses in the Midwest.

But much of what he said did not add up. Colleges he said he attended had no records of him, and Amazon

said he worked at one of its warehouses for just nine months, and not as a manager. Police records from four states painted a picture of Babudar as rootless, living in his car with his mother and brother. He was frequently arrested and charged with petty crimes like shoplifting.

In December, his image as a fun-loving football fan was shattered when he was arrested outside Tulsa. Police say he robbed a credit union by sticking what they called a “CO2 pistol” in a teller’s face.

Kansas City fans speculated that he robbed the bank while driving to Houston to attend one of the team’s away games, and that was how he funded his expensive lifestyle. But so far he has been charged with robbing just the single bank in Oklahoma. He has pleaded not guilty.