Superfan known as ‘ChiefsAHolic’ waives preliminary hearing

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - The Kansas City Chiefs superfan known as ‘ChiefsAHolic’ waived his right to a preliminary hearing.

Xaviar Babudar, 29, made his second appearance in a Kansas City federal courtroom Wednesday afternoon. During the hearing, Babudar fired his public defender and was assigned a new one. He also waived his right to a preliminary hearing.

Babudar was arrested in California last month for bank theft and transporting stolen property across state lines after alleged robberies across the Midwest.

After initial charges of a bank robbery in Tulsa County, Oklahoma, in December 2022 in Tulsa, he was released on bond in February 2023. One month later, he removed his ankle monitor and fled prosecution for four months until authorities located him in Sacramento, California.

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Babudar’s affidavit alleges he stole $70,000 from Great Western Bank in Clive, Iowa, which he later transferred to Missouri. Investigators say he entered the bank with a ski mask and gave the bank teller a note indicating he had a firearm.

The affidavit also alleges the Chiefs fan purchased and redeemed more than $1 million in chips from various casinos in Missouri, Kansas and Illinois between April and December 2022.

Babudar traveled throughout the Midwest to perpetrate a string of robberies at various banks and credit unions and allegedly laundered the robbery proceeds through area casinos and bank s, according to the affidavit.