A Montana rancher has been sentenced to six months in prison after cloning a "near threatened" sheep from Asia and then selling its offspring to shooting preserves, according to court documents.

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.

An 81-year-old Montana man is expected to be sentenced 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

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

Arthur ‘Jack’ Schubarth says he simply wanted ‘to make the best sheep I could for this sheep industry.’ A US District Court Judge sentenced Arthur “Jack” Schubarth–the Montana man who illegally bred and sold gigantic Frankensheep clones to big game preserves –to six months in prison and over $24,

Arthur "Jack" Schubarth allegedly used tissue and testicles from large sheep hunted in Central Asia and the U.S. to create hybrid sheep for captive trophy hunting.