Montana Man Sentenced for Federal Wildlife Trafficking Charges …
WEB4 days ago · News; Press Releases; Montana Man Sentenced For Federal Wildlife Trafficking Charges As Part of Yearslong Effort To Create Giant Hybrid Sheep For Captive Hunting; ... Marco Polo argali sheep (Ovis ammon polii), from Kyrgyzstan into the United States without declaring the importation. Average males can weigh more than 300 pounds, with horns that ...
Montana Rancher Who Created Giant, Hybrid Sheep Sentenced …
WEB1 day ago · Paulo Fassani via Flickr under CC BY-SA 2.0. A rancher from Montana was sentenced to six months in prison on Monday for using parts from protected sheep to create giant sheep hybrids, aiming to ...
Montana breeder of illegal, giant sheep hybrid clones gets 6 …
WEB4 days ago · Sheep containing just 25-percent Marco Polo argali DNA fetched $15,000-per-head, while animals produced by MMK’s son, Montana Black Magic, sold for $10,000 each.
Montana man gets 6 months in prison for cloning giant sheep …
WEB4 days ago · Marco Polo sheep are the largest in the world, can weigh 300 pounds and have curled horns up to 5 feet long, court records said. Schubarth sold semen from MMK along with hybrid sheep to three people in Texas, while a Minnesota resident brought 74 sheep to Schubarth’s ranch for them to be inseminated at …
Rancher Gets 6 Months in Prison for Scheme to Create Giant Sheep …
WEB5 days ago · By Alexandra E. Petri. Sept. 30, 2024. An 81-year-old Montana rancher was sentenced to six months in federal prison on Monday for running a nearly decade-long scheme in which he used parts from ...
Montana man gets 6 months in prison for cloning giant sheep, …
WEB5 days ago · More than half the world’s population sees AP journalism every day. An 81-year-old Montana has been sentenced to six months in federal prison and ordered to pay $24,000 in penalties for using tissue and testicles from large sheep hunted in Central Asia and the U.S. to illegally create hybrid sheep for captive trophy hunts in …
81-year-old man will be sentenced after cloning giant sheep to …
WEB4 days ago · Marco Polo sheep are the largest in the world, can weigh 300 pounds (136 kilograms) and have curled horns up to 5 feet (1.5 meters) long, court records said.
Montana man pleads guilty to wildlife trafficking charges in …
WEBMar 16, 2024 · Marco Polo argali sheep, which can weigh more than 300 pounds and have horns spanning more than 5 feet, are banned in Montana “to protect native sheep from disease and hybridization,” according...
Man spent years trying to create giant hybrid sheep to be ... - CBS News
WEBMar 13, 2024 · The Montana man brought parts of the Marco Polo argali sheep, which can weigh more than 300 pounds, into the U.S. from Kyrgyzstan without declaring the importation, authorities said.
Montana breeder jailed for cloning giant sheep for trophy …
WEBMarco Polo argali are the world's largest sheep. A breeder in Montana has been jailed for six months for cloning a giant sheep species and selling its offspring at high prices for trophy hunting ...