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

“This crime ripped weeks-old baby ... monkeys are an endangered, protected species, according to Brookfield Zoo Chicago. Spider monkeys were taken from multiple mothers who were likely hurt ...

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 ...

The study, conducted by psychiatric professor Ned Kalin, previously involved exposing the baby monkeys to a number of stressors ... primates that we can relate to that reminds people to get in touch ...

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 ...

(U.S. Attorney’s Office) The crime was first discovered by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officials when they stopped one of Dafar’s co-conspirators attempting to get three baby monkeys across ...