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, 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Experts from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife agency said that Mexican spider monkey mother's do not willingly relinquish their babies and will fight whoever tries to take their babies. They added that ...

Animal experts in the case testified that Mexican spider monkey mothers will not voluntarily give up their babies, and the entire troop of spider monkeys will try to defend the mother and baby ...

The rare bird survived a BB gun shooting and all manner of predators and speeding vehicles before being felled by a natural ...