Montana man faces sentencing for cloning giant sheep to breed large sheep for captive trophy hunts
Montana man faces sentencing for cloning giant sheep to breed large sheep for captive trophy hunts

Montana man faces sentencing for cloning giant sheep to breed large sheep for captive trophy hunts

An 81-year-old Montana man is expected to be sentenced 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.
Montana man gets 6 months in prison for cloning giant sheep and breeding it
Why is this illegal? Who cares?
For some reason, the AP only mention this explicitly in their original article, not the linked follow-up article:
It seems to be the Lacey Act he's charged with violating.