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 Dafar, ...

Springtime is known for baby animals, and the Utah’s Hogle Zoo has been living up to that expectation this year. The youngest and newest resident is a white, fuzzy colobus monkey. Born to mom Violet, ...

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 ...

“This crime ripped weeks-old baby monkeys from their mothers, disrupted fragile ecosystems, endangered a vulnerable species, and posed significant public health risks,” said U.S. Attorney Adam ...

A Texas man will spend months in prison after pleading guilty to trafficking six endangered spider monkeys in Southern California, according to federal prosecutors. Sarmad Ghaled Dafar, 33, of ...

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 ...

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 ...

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — According to the Department of Justice, a Houston man was sentenced in federal court Friday for smuggling endangered baby Mexican spider monkeys into the United States.

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 ...