Scott Winters/Icon Sportswire via Getty ImagesA Kansas City Chiefs superfan who committed a series of bank robberies has been ordered by a judge to pay $10.8 million in damages to a Bixby, Oklahoma, bank teller he threatened with a gun in 2022, per ESPN's Elizabeth Merrill and David Purdum.
Xaviar Babudar, widely known as Chiefsaholic, reportedly was ordered to pay Payton Garcia, the former teller, $3.6 million for inflicting physical harm and emotional distress and $7.2 million in punitive damages. Tulsa County District Judge Tracy L. Priddy made the ruling last Wednesday.
Babudar reached a federal plea agreement in February after admitting to committing 11 robberies in seven states that resulted in more than $800,000 and laundering that money through casinos. He's required to pay at least $532,675 in restitution to the financial institutions he robbed.
Frank Frasier, Garcia's attorney, said Monday that he and his client are aware that it will not be easy to collect the money.
"But the point is two things," Frasier told Merrill and Purdum. "He'll never be able to profit from this. Say he writes a book in prison, say he does the Lifetime or Hallmark movie ... anything he obtains from that will be paid to his creditors. The second part overall is this: The judge sent a message that you cannot profit from crime. You cannot profit by greater notoriety, you cannot profit from clicks, getting more views, getting more likes."
Babudar was arrested in Bixby on Dec. 16, 2022, after threatening Garcia with a black CO2 pistol during a robbery at the Tulsa Teachers Credit Union. He was released on bond in February 2023 and escaped after making $100,000 in two bets on the Chiefs. He was apprehended on July 7 in California after nearly four months of evading authorities.
The 29-year-old had built a large social media following as @Chiefsaholic on X and Instagram. An ESPN investigation in November revealed that his online persona was mostly false.
Garcia is still dealing with the trauma of the crime and had to leave her job, Frasier added.
"This has affected her children, her marriage," he said. "She'll never be able to go back into work in banking. [It affected] all aspects of her life."
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