A Montana livestock ranch isn't where you'd expect to find cutting edge and highly illegal cloning operations.

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.

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.

A Montana man was sentenced to six months in prison for being connected to an effort to create a giant sheep hybrid for captive hunting, the Department of Justice (DOJ) said Monday. Arthur “Jack”

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 "Jack" Schubarth,

A rancher from Montana was sentenced to six months in prison on Monday for using parts from protected sheep to create giant sheep hybrids, aiming to sell the species to captive hunting facilities. For nearly a decade,