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

The endangered spider monkey remains a hot commodity for smugglers operating along the US-Mexico border. Spider monkeys are named for their habit of dangling from trees using their long tails.

Border patrol agents at the Texas-Mexico border made two interesting finds ... Upon investigation, officials discovered a spider monkey stowed inside a backpack in the vehicle.

SAN DIEGO -- A Texas man was sentenced in federal court Friday for smuggling six Mexican baby spider monkeys into the U.S. Sarmad Ghaled Dafar of Houston was sentenced to four months in custody ...

Sarmad Ghaled Dafar, 33, pleaded guilty to attempting to smuggle baby Mexican Spider Monkeys across the U.S.-Mexico border. Photos uncovered by investigators show he put the monkeys in diapers and ...

Ronan the California sea lion helped prove them wrong An ugly dead fish missing one eyeball ... to smuggle baby Mexican Spider Monkeys across the U.S.-Mexico border. Photos uncovered by ...

According to court records, Dafar orchestrated the illegal trafficking of six protected baby Mexican spider monkeys from Mexico to the U.S. between June 2022 and August 2023. He communicated with ...