Fugitive Chiefs superfan detained for links to burglaries

A Kansas City Chiefs superfan, who had actually been on the run for 4 months after being charged in a December bank burglary, has actually been detained in California and implicated in a criminal problem of committing a string of burglaries in the Midwest, according to court files unsealed Monday.

Federal authorities detained Xaviar Babudar, 28, near Sacramento on Friday. Babudar has actually been charged with bank theft and transferring taken residential or commercial property throughout state lines for a formerly unsolved March 2022 burglary in Iowa. The FBI has actually likewise connected him to 6 other unsolved burglaries and tried burglaries of banks or cooperative credit union from April 2022 through December in Iowa, Minnesota, Tennessee and Nebraska. In overall, authorities state Babudar took more than $800,000.

Babudar will appear in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California in Sacramento on Monday afternoon. A federal grand jury will hear the case. The 2 federal charges each bring a sentence of approximately ten years in jail, according to the affidavit.

Babudar’s cellular phone was positioned in the very same areas as the formerly unsolved bank burglaries and tried burglaries, according to an affidavit submitted in assistance of the problem. Authorities declare that he bought and redeemed more than $1 million in chips from different gambling establishments in Missouri, Kansas and Illinois in between April and December 2022.

Babudar was understood on social networks and amongst the Chiefs fanbase as “Chiefsaholic,” a diehard fan who wore a gray wolf match for video games and frequently was revealed on television. He was very first detained Dec. 16 in Oklahoma and charged in a break-in of the Tulsa Educators Cooperative Credit Union. He pleaded innocent and was launched on bond in February prior to eliminating his ankle screen and vanishing in March.

Tulsa-area bail bondsman Michael Lloyd, who stated he has actually been trying to find Babudar ever since, informed ESPN that he paid an $80,000 bond forfeit charge on Friday, simply minutes prior to he got a call from the FBI that Babudar had actually been collared.

An ESPN examination discovered that Babudar had a distressed training, a history of legal problem and much of what he published about himself on social networks was incorrect. He frequently published screenshots of wagering slips, consisting of $5,000 bets on the Chiefs to win this year’s Super Bowl and quarterback Patrick Mahomes to win NFL regular-season MVP. Both were winners. In court files submitted after his December arrest, Babudar noted himself as homeless, and he has actually not had any constant earnings because October 2021, according to the FBI affidavit.