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More than a hundred dogs have been abandoned across Marion County over the past few months, leaving the shelter there overwhelmed. Now, there's a suspect in some of the cases.

There is a sigh of relief at the Marion County Animal Shelter. "We are getting a lot of these dogs moving out," said Sarah Gribbins. "We are not going to have to euthanize the big numbers we thought."

Police say Christina Gribbins, who is not related to Sarah Gribbins, admits to abandoning 20 to 30 dogs in Marion County last month. Police say she wasn't a license rescue but that she had taken in dogs over the years and basically had become overwhelmed with what she had.

The dogs came from a shelter in Garrard County and the Homeward Bound K-9 Rescue in London. Police say they don't believe this was her intent when this started to do something like this. Christina Gribbins says she felt comfortable leaving the dogs in Marion County and that the shelter would pick them up.

"I believe she got overwhelmed and I know that can happen to any of us, but the solution is to call and ask for help," said Sarah Gribbins. "Don't throw these dogs off the side of the road. Its not fair.

Nearly all of the dogs that were originally dropped off on the side of the road have been taken back to where they came from. So now all the empty cages are actually a good sign.

"They went to the National Humane Society, the Woodstock Foundation and also some of them were returned back to the rescue groups and the shelters they came from.

The sheriff's department says they are still searching for whoever dropped off the rest of the more than 100 dogs that have been abandoned since December. They hope to arrest Christina Gribbins Monday. She will face 23 counts of animal cruelty in the second degree.