A Houston woman will spend 15 months in prison for trying to sell a spider monkey and more on Craigslist.
This wasn't 21-year-old Savannah Nicole Valdez's first rodeo. She was previously sentenced to two years of supervised release for smuggling a monkey from Mexico and then fleeing an immigration checkpoint in Brownsville in 2022.
In the latest case, authorities last year found several ads posted on the website offering exotic birds for sale including keel-billed toucans and yellow-headed Amazon parrots.
The subsequent undercover operation that nabbed Valdez involved the sale of two keel-billed toucans and a Mexican spider monkey.
Those animals have since been transferred to local zoos for proper care.
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