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.

According to a press release from U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the monkey was discovered hidden inside a Chevy Equinox ...

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.

HIDALGO, Texas (KVIA) -- CBP officers at the Hidalgo Port of Entry intercepted a spider monkey this weekend. Agriculture specialists at the Anzalduas International Bridge discovered the monkey Sunday.

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 ...