He cloned a very large sheep. That was the horrible crime?
I was expecting him to admit to Carnal Knowledge of the Bo Peeps. At least he’s not doing that! PETA might have a cow. though.
He cloned a critically endangered wild Asian sheep............
From WIKI:
Conservation
Hunting the Marco Polo sheep first became popular when Mohammed Zahir Shah, king of Afghanistan, hunted and killed a ram in the 1950s.[39] He thereafter declared that the valley in which he hunted be a protected habitat for the sheep as a hunting grounds for Afghan royalty, and it was not until 1968 that an American tourist was allowed to hunt in the reserve.[39] In 2008, it was estimated that American hunters paid an average of $20,000 to $25,000 for an expedition to hunt a Marco Polo sheep.[40] A recent study put the cost at $40,000 per permit.[41]
In 1976, in Khunzerav, the sheep’s population was estimated to be 300.[29] This number declined to a maximum of 160 between 1978 and 1981, and declined again to only 45 in 1991.[29] George Schaller of the Wildlife Conservation Society estimated the worldwide population in 2003 as around 10,000, half what Ronald Petocz estimated in his 1973 tour.[11] Their population density has been recorded as fewer than two animals per 1 square kilometre (0.39 sq mi).[16] The Marco Polo sheep was included on the first list of protected species issued by the Afghanistan National Environmental Protection Agency in June 2009.[42]
In 2024, an American man plead guilty to illegally importing body parts of Marco Polo sheep to create clone hybrids, which he planned to sell to private hunting reserves in Texas.[43][44]