It actually is much closer to just normal breeding than genetic engineering. Basically, instead of trying to smuggle a real live argoli sheep, he smuggled genet

It actually is much closer to just normal breeding than genetic engineering. Basically, instead of trying to smuggle a real live argoli sheep, he smuggled genetic material used that to produce a argoli sheep and is using artificial insemination to breed that with Montana sheep. “Genetic engineering” isn’t really doing anything except to get hold of an argoli sheep. The only bonafide “genetic engineering” going on artificial insemination based hybridization which has been going on for centuries at least. The “genetic engineering” is basically law enforcement clickbait to make the crime seem scarier or more novel than it really is.