Sheikhan entered the poker-hive’s consciousness in 2005, not for securing his best lifetime cash of $600,000 for finishing 11th in the Main Event, but for butting heads with one of the biggest head-butters of all time, Mike “The Mouth” Matusow.

But because the records of his crime were destoyed, a U.S. Department of Homeland Security tried to have Sheikhan deported back to his birth country Iran over it. That part of his past was revealed in 2007 after the U.S. In 1995, he spent nine months in jail after being convicted of a misdemeanor involving charges of sexual battery and annoyance or molestation of a child.

It won’t be Sheikhan’s first time slept behind bars when he reports to jail the first day of 2024. The release goes on to detail how Sheikhan and Williams were part of an underground marijuana dispensary industry that generated about a quarter-million dollars between five shops each week.Īlthough he plead guilty in 2022, his sentencing hearing was delayed multiple times because of his own and a family member’s health issues. Attorney’s Office, Southern District of California. The pair were also accused of “personally coordinating and facilitating the procurement of replacement firearms for the business’ armed security guards and continued to operate their business and distribute vast amounts of marijuana” after being charged, according to a June press release from the U.S.

Sheikhan had already forfeited $300,000 in cash that was seized at the start of the investigation. The two were facing sentences of up to 40 years and a $5 million fine each. Sheikhan, 52, and partner in crime Sabriana Williams, 26, plead guilty in June 2022 for various charges from running the business which, according to the Feds, distributed 6,600 pounds of marijuana to illegal dispensaries in San Diego. Shahram Sheikhan, known as “Shawn” or “The Shiek” in the poker world, but referred to as “Sean” by the Feds, was charged by the Department of Justice for supplying the Devil’s lettuce to unlicensed and illegal marijuana dispensaries in Southern California, as well as directly to customers, through their company Cannaland from 2019 through his arrest in 2021. One of the faces of the poker boom in the mid-aughts is heading to prison after pleading guilty to running an illegal marijuana distribution business in California. How Much Money Can You Make Playing Poker?.

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