A Texas man 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 ...

U.S. Fish and Wildlife agents testified in Dafar’s case and said Mexican spider monkey mothers will not give their babies up willingly. They are part of troops, and these troops of spider ...

An baby spider monkey (Credit: Getty Images) Investigators search the accomplice’s phone and discovered that the monkeys, only weeks-old, were being smuggled for Dafar, the attorney’s office said.

A Texas man was busted for trafficking vulnerable Mexican baby spider monkeys, who were too young to be separated from their mothers, into San Diego and selling them on Facebook. Sarmad Ghaled ...

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 ...

SAN DIEGO — A Houston man has been sentenced to four months in custody for facilitating the smuggling of six baby Mexican spider monkeys into the United States from Mexico. 33-year-old Sarmad ...

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 ...

"I have monkey coming in 2 week baby monkey...Is a spider monkey... [I'll] let you know when it is here because they gonna send it to me from California." Dafar also sent a photo of the animal ...

“I have monkey coming in 2 week baby monkey…Is a spider monkey… [I’ll] let you know when it is here because they gonna send it to me from California,” Dafar wrote the client. “Is a ...

SAN DIEGO — A Houston man has been sentenced to four months in custody for facilitating the smuggling of six baby Mexican spider monkeys into the United States from Mexico. 33-year-old Sarmad ...

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 ...