Montana Man Sentenced to Jail After Cloning Sheep
Screenshot of Dolly the sheep, via Al Jazeera YouTube Channel
On Monday, a Montana man was sentenced to six months in Federal prison for cloning sheep.
Arthur “Jack” Schubarth, 81, of Montana, was sent to prison after “illegally using tissue and testicles from large sheep hunted in Central Asia and the U.S. to create a hybrid sheep.”
The Associated Press reported Schubarth cloned the sheep for captive trophy hunting in Minnesota and Texas.
U.S. District Court Judge Brian Morris sent Schubarth to prison to deter anyone else from trying to “change the genetic makeup of the creatures.”
Along with a prison sentence, Judge Morris fined Schubarth $20,000 and ordered him to pay $4,000 to the U.S.
