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Man sentenced for smuggling baby spider monkeys into California

Sophia Martin
Sophia Martin
Published April 21, 2025
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A Texas man was arrested to traffic vulnerable monkeys of Mexican spider, who were too young to be separated from their mothers, San Diego and sell them on Facebook.

Sarmad Ghaled Dafar, 33, was recently sentenced to four months of custody and 180 days of home confinement for six primates trafficking, according to the United States Department of Justice.

The agents of the Fishing and Wildlife Service of the United States discovered their crimes in 2023 when they intercepted three Mexican baby spider monkeys that had gone contraband their legs on the border in Calexo by some who worked for him, prosecutors said.

Not only is it illegal to possess primates as pets in California, but it is also so special to possess Baby Spider monkeys. The species is in danger and babies require constant and qualified care to survive.

“This crime started the monkeys of their mothers, interrupted fragile ecosystems, endangered a vulnerable species and raised important risks to public health,” said Us Atty. Adam Gordon in a statement on Friday.

After the officials confiscated the three monkeys in August 2023, they registered the smuggler’s phone and found messages that indicated that he was bringing the animals through the border to Dafar.

In his Poba Agreement, Dafar admitted to coordinate the traffic of baby spider monkeys, receiving them in the United States and organizing their sale.

The three confiscated monkeys, called Chrissy, Jack and Janet, were temporarily quarantically in the San Diego Zoo. As part of his sentence, he ordered to pay more than $ 23,500 in restitution for the cost of his quarantine.

Since then, the monkeys have been permanently housed in the Brookfield Zoo in Chicago, along with two other baby spider monkeys, called Frankee and Divees, which were seized in a separate case of border smuggling of the southwest, help of the prosecutors.

Duration of the investigation, the officials discovered that Dafar had previously hired and sold at least three other Mexican spider monkeys for babies, in June 2022 and July 2023.

His whereabouts are unknown.

These three additional monkeys were not quarantine, which requests the law to avoid fatal diseases, such as Ebola, Marburg and Mpox, who spread from primates to humans, prosecutors said.

“This is not simply an economic crime; it is a serious and lasting injury for both wild life and for public safety,” Gordon said. “Border security is not just about intercount drugs and prevention of illegal entries. It also implies protecting the public from dangerous diseases.”

The investigation indicated that Dafar intentionally trafficked baby spider monkeys, despite the risk of separating them from their mothers, because he believed they were easier to hide.

When a Facebook user sent him to give a news eagle about spider monkeys seized by US border patrol agents[g] to[o] Many of them and all adults make a lot of noise and act. Babies must be asleep and small to hide, “according to judicial documents.

Dafar sent potential messages to customers on Facebook and sent photos of baby spider monkeys in diapers and under a heat lamp, both signs that indicate that primates are too young to survive on their own, prosecutors said.

Spider Monkey usually nurse during their first two years of life, and most will remain close to their mothers until they are 4 years old.

Their mothers are protectors, and the whole troop will work together to defend the baby against a threat, according to the testimony of American fish and wild life agents. As a result, the poachers often kill the mother and the troop when they try to capture babies.

Chrissy’s genetic tests, Jack and Janet indicated that they all had separate mothers, which means that it is possible for the cogacinos to kill many monkeys to capture them.

He has been ordered to give up on May 29 or before, prosecutors said.

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