A Texas man was sentenced to four months of custody per smuggling six Strange baby spider monkeys On the Mexican border and trying to sell them on Facebook, authorities said.
Sarmad Ghaled Dafar, 33, also received the order of the months of confinement of the house and paid $ 23.501.70 in restitution for the cost of quarantine three of the six In danger of extinction In the San Diego Zoo, according to the United States Prosecutor’s Office for the Southern District of California.
“This crime started the monkeys of their mothers, interrupted fragile ecosystems, endangered a vulnerable species and raised important risks to public health,” said US prosecutor Adam Gordon.
“This is not simply an economic crime; it is a severe and loading injury for both wildlife and public safety,” he added.
Dafar introduced the monkeys in June 2022 and in July 2023, the first of which was recorded in a Facebook message that sent a potential customer, according to the transcription.
“I have a monkey in 2 weeks of a baby monkey … it’s a spider monkey … [I’ll] I let you know when I am here because they will send it to me from California, “Dafar wrote to the client.
“It’s a spider monkey[e] Child Go[e]S for 15K and more, but I ask 8k, “he added.
Dafar allegedly sent another customer a photo of a monkey under a heat lamp, with another 2023 message that showed a couple or baby monkeys with Diedas.
Dafar also seemed to be created smarter than the average monkey smuggler, calling the suspect who was caught Smuggling seven of the apes On August 6, 2023, “stupid”.
“And all adults make a lot of noise and are active. Babies must be asleep and small to hide,” Dafar wrote when some sent a news article about the bust.
The authorities pointed out that at least three of the smuggling Dafar monkeys in the United States were not in quarantine, which requires the law to prevent the spread of the disease.
“Some of the most dangerous sound diseases are those that are transferred from primates to humans, such as Ebola, Marburg, Monkypox and the Simia Immunodeficiency Virus,” said the US prosecutor’s office.
The three monkeys that were tasks of the San Diego Zoo from the quarantine of bones and were transferred to the Brookfield Zoo in Chicago.
The authorities added the fate of the other three Dafar monkeys, the authorities added.
The in danger monkey remains a hot product for smugglers who operate along the border between the United States and Mexico.
Spider monkeys bear the name of their habit of hanging from trees using their long lines.
They are among the 25 most threatened primates in the world, according to the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS).
