Arthur “Jack” Schubarth, 80, of Vaughn, Montana, pleaded guilty to felony charges related to trafficking sheep parts from Asia into the United States – a violation of the Lacey Act ...

The rancher illegally brought parts of the endangered Marco Polo argali sheep, one of the largest sheep species in the world weighing 300 pounds or more, to the U.S. from the Asian country ...

A Montana rancher was charged with illegally selling offspring from a cloned sheep across state lines. The retail value of the transported animals is $250,000 to $550,000, per court documents. The ...

The 81-year-old was convicted on two charges related to the creation of giant sheep hybrids for lucrative private hunting. The post Montana Man Gets Prison Time for Frankensheep, Selling Clone ...

A practical demonstration of removing undesirable parts of a sheep fleece before processing. Set on a homemade skirting table ...

These “massive hybrid sheep” were created by illegally importing animal parts from central Asia, which the man then used to clone the animals. This resulted in an “enormous hybrid species ...

Shortly thereafter, Schubarth allegedly got his hands on some of those sheep parts and, in 2015, paid a deposit of $4,200 to produce cloned sheep embryos from the dead argali's remains.

The Montana man used sheep parts from Kyrgyzstan to set up a hybrid breeding operation. An 81-year-old Montana rancher was sentenced to six months in prison Monday after admitting to illegally ...

Arthur “Jack” Schubarth, 80, of Vaughn, Montana, pleaded guilty to felony charges related to trafficking sheep parts from Asia into the United States – a violation of the Lacey Act ...