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Who is ChiefsAholic? Kansas City Chiefs fan known for wearing wolf costumes is arrested for robbing bank

The superfan-turned-criminal, whose real name is Xavier Michael Babudar, goes by the moniker ChiefsAholic

BIXBY, OKLAHOMA: A Kansas City Chiefs superfan who earned viral popularity by showing up to games in wolf costumes has been arrested for allegedly trying to rob a bank. The superfan, whose real name is Xavier Michael Babudar, is known to most as "ChiefsAholic." He was arrested on Friday, December 16. 

Even though Babudar had previously tweeted that he would be attending the game, the @ChiefsAholic Twitter account was oddly silent on Sunday when the Chiefs played the Texans in Houston. According to Tulsa County Jail records, Babudar was arrested on Friday morning after police responded to an armed robbery at the Tulsa Teachers Credit Union in Bixby, Oklahoma. 

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He tweeted on December 12 and wrote, "Originally when the schedule came out, I had no plans or intentions in making the trip to Houston. HOWEVER I’ve never gone an entire season in which I attended EVERY Chiefs game on the schedule. You only live once, I’ll see y’all in Houston next week ! #ChiefsKingdom."

The city is located halfway between Houston, Texas, and Kansas City, Missouri. According to 2News Oklahoma, Babudar was apprehended with a weapon and a big amount of cash after an eyewitness gave authorities a description of him. Luckily, the incident didn't result in any injuries. "The decisive and quick action of the witness permitted Bixby Police Officers to respond in under two minutes and take the suspect in custody within six minutes," Todd Blish, Bixby Chief of Police, stated. It was not immediately clear from the arrest report if Babudar was wearing the wolf mask he usually dons for NFL games when the alleged crime occurred. He is being held under a $200,000 bond.

'Fans got to know of his arrest'

This information became public after several of Babudar's followers realized he had stopped posting on social media for several days. Babudar is well-known for attending Chiefs games dressed as a wolf. Most recently, he was spotted during Week 14 in Denver. When Babudar posted that he would be going to Houston for the Week 15 Chiefs-Texans game on December 18, his followers started to reach out to check if anyone had heard from him. The last tweet from his account was seen on the day he was arrested, which is December 16. Following the news of his arrest, people on Twitter started researching Babudar and discovered a lengthy history of Babudar getting in trouble with law enforcement. 

A user tweeted, "A lot going on in the world but everyone takes a moment to look up the Chiefsaholic fan who funded his trips to games by robbing banks in the same mask he wore to games. I’ve never been prouder to root for the Chiefs." Another wrote, "Chiefs twitter never disappoints man.. yesterday were raging about cheffers crew.. today a lot of us were worried about someone who was chillin in jail cause he got caught robbing banks."

One Twitter conversation, in particular, revealed at least four different instances in which Babudar was arrested or accused of acts involving officials. The incidents, which date back to 2014, include theft suspicion, misdemeanor theft, and other unspecified accusations. Except for the one screenshot of his bookings, Heavy was able to verify all of them. According to the Twitter thread, the incident that hasn't been confirmed was from October 6, 2016, when he was arrested on suspicion of misdemeanor theft. 

After hearing about Babudar, who is not the first Chiefs superfan recently involved in a publicized incident like this, social media responses flooded in swiftly. Pat McAfee discussed ChiefsAholic's story and posted the chat on Twitter with the caption, "This man @ChiefsAholic is a career criminal.' "As official #ChiefsKingdom Mom, let me remind you people (@ChiefsAholic) lie on the internet," one Twitter user penned. "You don’t really know a person just bc you talk online. Also, financial planning tip: attending every game requires you are either independently wealthy or rob banks. No in-between." “When you start telling somebody this story, you have to start by saying ‘this guy that calls himself ChiefsAholic…’ I can’t even pass that part without laughing so hard that I cry. There's no way I can explain this to non-online friends,” Rob Cassidy of Rivals tweeted. “Something that just occurred to me in this Chiefsaholic thing…if the chiefs ended up having the game in Germany we expect to next year…was he gon try to pull off an international heist?” asked another user. “The Chiefs super fan “chiefsaholic”‘robbing banks to pay for his trips to the games, and doing it IN the costume he wears to games is next level Missouri behavior,” wrote another user. "Not gonna lie, Xavier Babudar is a pretty sweet name, I would have dropped the Chiefsaholic thing and just rocked that. But I also wouldn't have been robbing banks so like, what do I know?" tweeted another.

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