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 for smuggling six baby Mexican spider monkeys, too young to be separated from their mothers, into ...

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.

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

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

The word "tarantula" is not commonly used in our everyday language. Yet, everyone immediately knows what it means: a large, hairy spider. Today, people might be more inclined to say "bird spider." But ...

The investigation began at the Calexico West Port of Entry in the summer of 2023, when Dafar's coconspirator attempted to enter the U.S. with three illegal baby Mexican Spider monkeys. The U.S ...

Scientists from the Zoological Survey of India have identified four significant spider species in Northeast India, including ...

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 ...

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