Chiefsaholic, the Fan Who Dressed as a Wolf, Is Mentioned to Be on the Lam

Earlier than this yr’s Tremendous Bowl, the Kansas Metropolis soccer superfan often called Chiefsaholic was a supply of fascination within the sports activities world. How, folks questioned, did a person recognized for carrying a wolf masks to video games and putting massive bets find yourself in jail on prices that he robbed a financial institution in Tulsa, Okla.?

Now Chiefsaholic, recognized legally as Xaviar Babudar, is on the coronary heart of a a lot easier thriller: The place is he?

Babudar, who had been launched from jail whereas awaiting trial, failed to look at a listening to Monday morning, in line with courtroom information. His court-ordered GPS monitor was present in a wooded space close to an Academy Sports activities + Outdoor retailer in southern Tulsa with the strap minimize off.

Michael Lloyd, the bail bondsman who paid Babudar’s $80,000 bond to safe his launch from jail final month, mentioned the unit’s tamper alert went off round 8:30 p.m. Saturday. Lloyd went to Babudar’s resort — although Babudar lives within the Kansas Metropolis, Mo., space, he was required to stay in Tulsa County, Okla., as a situation of his launch — however his room was empty.

Babudar’s lawyer, Tracy Tiernan, is as confused as anybody. “I don’t know something about it,” he mentioned. “I reached out to him and haven’t had a response.”

Babudar, 28, could also be Kansas Metropolis’s greatest recognized fan. He wore a wolf masks and outlandish shirt and pants to almost each sport, together with the group’s Tremendous Bowl victory in Miami Gardens, Fla., in February 2020.

He cultivated a picture as a excessive curler by regularly posting slips from bets price 1000’s of {dollars} on social media, the place he had tens of 1000’s of followers. He additionally attended the charity gala of Patrick Mahomes, the group’s star quarterback, and apparently received a portray.

When followers questioned how he afforded his life-style, Babudar responded that he managed a number of warehouses within the Midwest.

However a lot of what he mentioned didn’t add up. Schools he mentioned he attended had no information of him, and Amazon mentioned he labored at considered one of its warehouses for simply 9 months, and never as a supervisor. Police information from 4 states painted an image of Babudar as rootless, dwelling in his automobile along with his mom and brother. He was regularly arrested and charged with petty crimes like shoplifting.

In December, his picture as a fun-loving soccer fan was shattered when he was arrested outdoors Tulsa. Police say he robbed a credit score union by sticking what they known as a “CO2 pistol” in a teller’s face.

Kansas Metropolis followers speculated that he robbed the financial institution whereas driving to Houston to attend one of many group’s away video games, and that was how he funded his costly life-style. However to this point he has been charged with robbing simply the one financial institution in Oklahoma. He has pleaded not responsible.

Lloyd, the bail bondsman, mentioned he agreed to pay Babudar’s bond partly as a result of he too is a Kansas Metropolis fan.

“I did need to assist him as a result of he’s Okay.C. wolfman,” Lloyd mentioned. “I’ve adopted him for years. And yeah I needed to assist him. What’s loopy is I nonetheless need to assist him.”

However to assist him, Lloyd will first have to seek out him.

Quickly after Babudar was launched from jail in February, Tiernan filed a movement for him to journey to Arizona for what the submitting mentioned was a household journey. Not happening the journey would “trigger appreciable monetary hardship for the defendant and his household,” the submitting mentioned.

The movement was filed three days earlier than the Chiefs had been to play the Philadelphia Eagles within the Tremendous Bowl held in Glendale, Ariz.

A decide didn’t contemplate the movement, and Babudar was not noticed in Arizona. His disappearance almost seven weeks later, and per week after he paid a court-ordered price for the GPS monitoring, baffled Lloyd.

“Why did he wait till two days earlier than a listening to? Why did he pay his charges for the leg monitoring? He may’ve executed this a very long time in the past with out paying anyone, with out paying a lawyer,” Lloyd mentioned.

Babudar might have a robust incentive to journey. If the betting slips he posted on social media are to be believed, he received $100,000 when Mahomes was named the N.F.L.’s most precious participant and his group received the Tremendous Bowl. The bets had been positioned in Kansas, and winnings should be collected in particular person.

If Babudar is discovered, he pays a hefty value to regain his freedom. On Monday, Choose Michelle Keely issued a warrant for his arrest and set a brand new bond, this time for $1 million.