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,

Arthur ‘Jack’ Schubarth says he simply wanted ‘to make the best sheep I could for this sheep industry.’

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

Arthur "Jack" Schubarth's crime "ruined his life, reputation and family," his attorneys said. The rancher was sentenced to six months in prison.

The 81-year-old breeder imported tissue from the Marco Polo argali sheep, the world's largest, from Kyrgyzstan.

Marco Polo sheep are the largest in the world, can weigh 300 pounds and have curled horns up to 5 feet long, court records said.

Arthur "Jack" Schubarth of Vaughn was sentenced in federal court for two felony wildlife crimes, including an illegal sheep cloning scheme.

A Montana man was sentenced to six months in prison for crimes committed during his effort to create a giant sheep hybrid for captive hunting, the Department of Justice (DOJ) said Monday.

An 81-year-old Montana man was sentenced Monday to six months in federal prison for illegally using tissue and testicles from large sheep hunted in Central Asia and the U.S. to create hybrid sheep for captive trophy hunting in Texas and Minnesota.

A Montana man has been sentenced to six months in prison for his involvement in a sheep cloning and breeding scheme involving a rare ovine species. According to USA Today, 81-year-old Arthur "Jack" Schubarth is going to prison after cloning a rare species of sheep from Asia and implanting the embryos in his own sheep in an attempt to create bigger hybrid sheep.