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

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

Israel's Nature and Parks Authority rescue a monkey, April 2025. (photo credit: ISRAEL POLICE AND NATURE AND PARKS AUTHORITY SPOKESPERSON) Israel's Nature and Parks Authority rescued three ...

The crime was discovered on Aug. 14, 2023, when Dafar’s co-conspirator tried to smuggle the three undeclared monkeys into the U.S. at the Calexico West port of entry, the charging document says.

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 ...

33-year-old Sarmad Ghaled Dafar was also sentenced in federal court Friday to 180 days of home confinement, and was ordered ...

The crime was discovered on Aug. 14, 2023, when Dafar’s co-conspirator tried to smuggle the three undeclared monkeys into the U.S. at the Calexico West port of entry, the charging document says.