I got this info on another list (I though of Lily as soon as I read this!)...it's the same story SammynDqtz posted a link to. News links will sometimes "no longer exist" so thought I'd post the info.
Dog seizure massive
108 animals in shelter
By Shelly Whitehead
Post staff reporter
The seizure of 111 dogs in Harrison County Thursday night is believed to be one of the largest single animal seizures in Kentucky.
Police say they seized the 111 dogs -- many of them severely abused and neglected -- from farm near the Grant-Harrison county line, culminating months of intensive investigation into a three-county illegal kennel operation.
"We recovered 108 live dogs and three dead dogs," Dills said of the massive multi-county animal seizure overnight. "It took the help of Boone County -- Harrison County Sheriff and then my agency and probation and parole and the Grant County Animal Shelter. No one county could have probably pulled if off by their self."
Animal wardens and law enforcement began showing up at Tonya Moukaddem's Renaker-Berry Road property about 7 p.m. Thursday afternoon to execute a search warrant.
All 108 live dogs seized are being housed at the Grant County Animal Shelter in Williamstown, which just last week took in 16 dogs seized from the property of Moukaddem's former husband, Ken Sunbom.
Moukaddem had been charged Tuesday with animal cruelty and failure to obtain a kennel license when police went to her home to arrest her former husband, Ken Sunbom.
Grant County sheriff's deputies executed a search warrant on Sunbom's Lawrenceville-Keefer Road property in southwest Grant County last week. He is charged with 19 counts of animal cruelty after 16 live dogs, 1 dead dog and 6 horses were seized from his property.
Grant County Deputy Sheriff Chuck Dills said last night Moukaddem was arrested for violating her probation on a 2-year-old felony theft conviction. But Dills said the evidence uncovered on her property during the search will soon result in many additional charges of animal abuse and neglect, and perhaps other offenses.
Harrison County Animal Control Officer Harold Poe said the scene at Moukaddem's property last night was one of organized canine chaos, but somehow all the animals were safely penned and taken to the shelter.
"There was such confusion going on there last night, you wouldn't believe," Poe said. "I'd say they took somewhere in the neighborhood of 40-something boxers and then a whole bunch of little dogs like Pomeranians, Jack Russells, Shih Tzos, schnauzers and poodles. -- Those dogs were all outside with no cover over them and their water buckets were all frozen and everything else."
Dills said though all the dogs have been taken the Grant County Shelter, animal control officials in Boone, Campbell, Gallatin and Harrison Counties are helping to handle calls from individuals in three states who have flooded Grant County officials with calls about their missing or stolen dogs. Dills said he is now working to determine if any of the seized animals were stolen in order to return them to their rightful owners.
"We have received a lot of phone calls -- averaging 120 calls a day when we just had the 16 dogs there," Dills said. " Now with 108 dogs, that will probably triple. -- I've spoken to a lady in Frankfort, someone from Scott County and a lady south of Dayton -- if they've got a missing pet they're contacting us. -- So we're going to run them on our local cable here and we're requiring at this point -- for everyone to have to bring a photo before they view any of dogs."
The number for the Grant County Shelter is (859) 824-9403 for further information. Those with missing animals can also call shelters in Boone, Gallatin, Campbell and Harrison counties for information. Additional charges are pending against Moukaddem in relation to Thursday night's seizures, Dills said.
