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

A Texas man was sentenced for smuggling six baby Mexican spider monkeys, too young to be separated from their mothers, into ...

A 33-year-old Texas man was sentenced in San Diego federal court Friday for coordinating the smuggling of at least six ...

A Texas man was sentenced in federal court on Friday to four months in custody and 180 days in home confinement after ...

Sarmad Ghaled Dafar of Houston, Texas was sentenced in federal court on Friday to four months in custody and 180 days home ...

A Houston man was sentenced in federal court Friday for smuggling endangered baby Mexican spider monkeys into the United ...

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

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

Image via US Department of Justice A Texas man is facing time behind bars for smuggling spider monkeys into the country and attempting to sell them on Facebook. The Texas man smuggled six baby spider ...

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.

He was also ordered to pay $23,501.70 in restitution for the cost of quarantining three of the monkeys at the San Diego Zoo. Dafar must surrender on or before May 29. According to the U.S ...