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

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

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 sentenced to prison for smuggling six baby Mexican spider monkeys into the United States, prosecutors announced on Monday.

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

U.S. Fish and Wildlife agents testified in Dafar’s case and said Mexican spider monkey mothers will not give their babies up willingly. They are part of troops, and these troops of spider ...

“I have monkey coming in 2 week baby monkey…Is a spider monkey… [I’ll] let you know when it is here because they gonna send it to me from California,” Dafar wrote the client. “Is a ...

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.

"I have monkey coming in 2 week baby monkey...Is a spider monkey... [I'll] let you know when it is here because they gonna send it to me from California." Dafar also sent a photo of the animal ...