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.

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

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

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

but far more of them squealed over how cute the monkey was; how they should return the pet to the driver; how they wanted a baby monkey, too. If you search on social media for a term like spider ...

Back to the baby spider monkey – it was dressed in ... over and the officer is a little unfriendly. While finding a cute spider monkey is fun, it’s more likely police deal with someone who ...

but an individual spider monkey will wait about two to four years before giving birth again. Infants are born with full body hair except for the bare skin around the eyes of their “baby face.” ...