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

Image via US Department of Justice A Texas man is facing time behind bars for smuggling spider monkeys into the country and attempting to sell them on Facebook. The Texas man smuggled six baby spider ...

A Texas man was sentenced for smuggling six baby Mexican spider monkeys, too young to be separated from their mothers, into ...

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 of Houston, Texas was sentenced in federal court on Friday to four months in custody and 180 days home ...

Upon investigation, officials discovered a spider monkey stowed inside a backpack in the vehicle ... "We remain committed to ...

Sarmad Ghaled Dafar of Houston was sentenced to four months in custody and 180 days home confinement for trafficking the ...

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

According to wildlife experts, over 50,000 live animals were seized or abandoned at U.S. ports of entry between 2015 and 2019, and spider monkey confiscations are rising. Traffickers often target ...

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 under a heat lamp in a cage. In August 2023 ...