US EditionMontana man faces sentencing for cloning giant sheep to breed large sheep for captive trophy hunts
- An 81-year-old Montana man, Arthur “Jack” Schubarth, faces sentencing for illegally creating hybrid sheep for captive trophy hunting.
- Prosecutors are not seeking prison time; Schubarth requests a one-year probation for violating federal wildlife trafficking laws.
- The maximum penalty for his violations is five years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000.
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Montana Man Sentenced To Federal Prison For Creating Massive Hybrid Sheep For Hunting Using Illegal Testicle Tissue From Asia
Enormous sheep ram with horns and DNA strand An 81-year-old man from Montana has been sentenced to federal prison after he illegally used tissue and testicles from sheep in Kyrgyzstan to try and create a new species of massive sheep, all for the purposes of hunting in Montana. By far, the wildest aspect of this story is that *he did* succeed in creating a humongous hybrid sheep by cloning a giant Marco Polo sheep which he hunted back in 2013. We…
81-year-old man gets 6 months in prison for cloning, breeding giant sheep
An 81-year-old Montana man was sentenced Monday to six months in federal prison for illegally using tissue and testicles from large sheep hunted in Central Asia and the U.S. to create hybrid sheep for captive trophy hunting in Texas and…
A man who tried to breed a sheep hybrid with genetic material from endangered animals to be sold as trophies to hunting ranches was sentenced to six months in prison, US justice said Monday. Arthur Schubarth, 81, illegally imported parts of the world's largest sheep species from Kyrgyzstan, which he used to create embryos in the United States. Schubarth implanted the embryos in sheep on his ranch in Montana that gave birth to genetically pure ca…
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