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. Arthur “Jack” Schubarth was sentenced Monday by U.S. District Court Judge Brian Morris. Schubarth pleaded guilty to violating federal wildlife trafficking laws, in part by cloning a giant Marco Polo sheep using tissue illegally brought into the U.S. by someone who killed the animal in Kyrgyzstan.