The star of HBO’s “Chimp Crazy” will spend almost four years in federal prison for lying about a chimp named Tonka.

“I hope you wake up and learn that if you violate the law, there are consequences and they are serious,” U.S. District Judge Stephen Clark told Tonia Haddix on Thursday as he handed down the 46-month sentence in St. Louis. It was well above the one year and one day her attorneys had requested and more than federal sentencing guidelines advised.

Haddix will remain in the Phelps County jail until the federal Bureau of Prisons determines where she will serve her sentence. She has been in custody since July 19, after federal agents found a mature female chimpanzee in a cage on her property near the Lake of the Ozarks in Camden County. The discovery meant Haddix was in viola

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