Sarmad Ghaled Dafar, 33, of Houston, Texas, was sentenced on April 18 to four months in federal prison and ordered to pay $23 ...

A Texas man was sentenced to four months in custody for smuggling six rare baby spider monkeys over the ... “This crime ripped weeks-old baby monkeys from their mothers, disrupted fragile ...

An baby spider monkey (Credit: Getty Images) Investigators search the accomplice’s phone and discovered that the monkeys, only weeks-old, were being smuggled for Dafar, the attorney’s office said.

spider monkeys, marmosets and tamarins. The world's smallest monkey is the pygmy marmoset, which lives in the Amazon rainforest. Old World monkeys include macaques, baboons, mandrills, proboscis ...

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 ...

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 33-year-old Texas man was sentenced in San Diego federal court Friday for coordinating the smuggling of at least six protected baby Mexican spider monkeys through the Calexico Port of Entry ...