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This article is crazy. So, in 2013, this guy imported dismembered parts from a highly-endangered breed of giant Central Asian sheep from Kyrgyzstan and didn’t declare it. Then, conspiring with at least 5 other individuals, sent it to a lab, cloned it, and birthed a new one. He then proceeded to hybridize it with other sheep to create some sort of gigantic Übersheep that he could sell in great number to private hunting ranches at a premium where, presumably, rich idiots could could pay to… hunt them?
Anyway, since the original giant sheep from Kyrgyzstan are endangered and protected by international conservation law, US Endangered Species Act, and Montana state law, not to mention the various import laws, interstate livestock shipping laws, and laws regarding cloning this guy and his cohort violated, he’s facing a ton of felonies at the state and federal level, at least.
America so violent we need to invent new things to kill.