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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.

Two individuals face federal charges after attempting to smuggle an endangered Mexican spider monkey into the U.S. at the ...

U.S. Customs and Border Protection intercepted a spider monkey and nearly $1 million in cocaine at the Texas-Mexico border.

A spider monkey and more than $980,000 in cocaine were intercepted at the Texas-Mexico border last weekend, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

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

A spider monkey and nearly $1 million in cocaine were intercepted during two separate and unrelated enforcement actions at the Texas-Mexico border, U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents say.

Upon investigation, officials discovered a spider monkey stowed inside a backpack in the vehicle. The two individuals were taken into custody and the monkey was transported to Gladys Porter Zoo in ...

As officials opened the backpack for an inspection, they discovered a spider monkey, an animal “prohibited from importation as pets,” U.S. Customs and Border Protection said. “Some monkeys ...