Sarmad Ghaled Dafar was sentenced to four months in custody for smuggling six, rare baby spider monkeys over the Mexican border and attempting to sell them over Facebook, officials said.

A Texas man was busted for trafficking vulnerable Mexican baby spider monkeys, who were too young to be separated from their mothers, into San Diego and selling them on Facebook. Sarmad Ghaled ...

The crime was first discovered by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officials when they stopped one of Dafar’s co-conspirators ...

Typically, they are not fully independent until they reach 2 years old, and most baby Mexican spider monkeys will stay with their mothers until they are 4 years old. U.S. Fish and Wildlife agents ...

A Texas man was sentenced in federal court on Friday to four months in custody and 180 days in home confinement after ...