Montana man gets 6 months in prison for cloning giant sheep and breeding it

[nnmarcher]

Haven't seen much else information, but a pretty crazy story.

Montana man gets 6 months in prison for cloning giant sheep and breeding it

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 Texas and Minnesota.

apnews.com

 

[Dust Rider]

Thanks for posting this. It is a very interesting and wild story.
I have not heard anything about it from any Montana news sources.

 

[*zap*]

cloning people today? soon?

 

[jmez]

I was at A&M when the first cloned horse was born. I asked the lady that made it if she could clone me. She had no sense of humor, zero.

Sent from my moto g power 5G - 2024 using Tapatalk

 

[DAOutfitters208]

Wonder if we will be getting a Sheep King documentary on Netflix?

 

[Baddog]

That’s some mad scientist stuff. I don’t know enough about what he was doing if it was really a problem or just someone thought it was.

 

[akn300wsm]

I think the scientists were just jealous they didn’t think of it first .

 

[cmahoney]

The USFWS ruined someone’s Texas free range, not a high fence, just as tough as any DIY wild sheep hunt, sheep hunt.

Dang


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

 

[West2East]

Evidently there's at least one of these running around Oregon may have to research that further!

 

[Mojave]

I think it is complete BS.

The state allowed him to have captive wildlife. So WTF is the problem?

I think he pissed someone off, and they had some connections to make his life suck.

 

[Tanner]

What isn’t this America ?!

 

[idelkslayer]

If I understand correctly, he illegally obtained the testicles and other tissue of marco polo sheep killed by a hunter in central asia. I haven't seen anything specific but is sounds like "smuggling" those biological samples is the problem, not necessarily what he did with them once here in the states.

 

[WCB]

IDK, I expected more with "GIANT SHEEP" in the headline. He should be arrested for producing a mediocre sheep imo.