Four years for Shawn Sheikhan in Cannaland dispensary case

Well-known poker player Shahram “Shawn” Sheikhan has been sentenced to four years in a federal prison after being sentenced on a single felony count of operating an illegal cannabis-distribution facility called Cannaland. Sheikhan and another defendant who faced a similar charge, Sabriana Williams, pled guilty in the case in June of 2022, following a 2021 …

‘Sheiky’ awaits sentencing in illicit pot-dispensary case

Later this week, a day of reckoning will arrive for Shahram “Shawn” Sheikhan, one of numerous poker players who gained a measure of fame during the heyday of televised poker during the 2000s. Sheikhan has had a small number of skirmishes with the law, and he’s been back in court a bit over the past …