During a major Northern California drug bust last week, authorities discovered a baby spider monkey and two rattlesnakes in ...

A baby spider monkey and two rattlesnakes were discovered at the home of a suspect who was busted for methamphetamine during ...

What began as a traffic stop ultimately turned into a drug bust and animal rescue mission last week according to the Solano ...

The animal’s owner agreed to surrender the monkey, now named Violeta, to the Oakland Zoo after the Sonoma County Sheriff’s ...

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

Sarmad Ghaled Dafar, 33, of Houston, Texas, was sentenced on April 18 to four months in federal prison and ordered to pay $23 ...

Typically, they are not fully independent until they reach 2 years old, and most baby Mexican spider monkeys will stay with their mothers until they are 4 years old. U.S. Fish and Wildlife agents ...

The crime was first discovered by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officials when they stopped one of Dafar’s co-conspirators ...

Violeta, an 18-month-old spider monkey, was rescued after law enforcement executed a search warrant on a Northern California home allegedly tied to a drug case.

A spider monkey is now receiving care after a traffic stop led deputies to seize a massive amount of meth, drug-related items ...