A Montana rancher has been sentenced to six months in prison after cloning a "near threatened" sheep from Asia and then selling its offspring to shooting preserves, according to court documents.

Montana Mountain King, a cloned Marco Polo argali sheep, at the center of a federal Lacey Act case that resulted in an 81-year-old man being sentenced to three years' imprisonment. Photo courtesy of ...

A Montana man who conspired to create massive hybrid sheep then sell the animals to Texas game hunting ranches will now spend half a year in prison, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. Arthur ...

A Montana rancher illegally used tissue and testicles from wild sheep killed by hunters in central Asia and the U.S. to breed “giant” hybrid sheep for sale to private hunting preserves in Texas, ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A Montana rancher ...

Sept. 30 (UPI) --An Octogenarian Montana livestock rancher was sentenced Monday to six months in prison for cloning giant sheep hybrids to be sold and hunted, federal prosecutors said. Arthur "Jack" ...