Shawn Sheikhan no longer scheduled to play LAPD poker tournament

 

Shahram ‘Sheiky’ Sheikhan won’t be appearing as planned at an upcoming LAPD charity poker event, according to a story published today by PokerHelper.com. Sheikhan, whose possible deportation from the US due to past charges of sexual misconduct made news a few months ago, has been been the subject of renewed media attention recently due to his appearance on Poker After Dark.

Sheikhan’s invitation by the LAPD to play in the event brought criticism from some corners. That criticism apparently resulted in either the LAPD retracting the invite or Sheikhan declining.

Excerpt from the PokerHelper story:

Shockingly, Sheikhan was announced by the Sheriff’s Department earlier this year as an invited celebrity guest to the February 24 second annual Memorial Poker Classic, run by the Sheriff’s Department’s Transit Services Bureau, at the Bicycle Casino in Bell Gardens, California, to raise monies for the families of law enforcement officers and firefighters who perished in the line of duty.

PokerHelper.com first broke the story that the perverted, poker-playing ex-con would be a guest at the law enforcement organization’s charity affair.

After other media, including a website that tracks sex criminals, picked up the story, a spokesman for the Sheriff’s Department last week defended Sheikhan and reiterated that he would be attending the charity poker event.