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 ...

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 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.

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 ...

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

A Houston man has been sentenced to four months in custody for facilitating the smuggling of six baby Mexican spider monkeys ...

A Texas man was sentenced to prison for smuggling six baby Mexican spider monkeys into the United States, prosecutors announced on Monday.

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.

He was also ordered to pay about $23,500 in restitution for the cost of quarantining three of the monkeys at the San Diego Zoo. According to investigators, Dafar helped coordinate the purchase and ...

He was also ordered to pay $23,501.70 in restitution for the cost of quarantining three of the trafficked monkeys at the San Diego Zoo. According to court records, Dafar orchestrated the illegal ...