A Tennessee woman has been charged with lying about having breast cancer and accepting hundreds of hours of donated leave from her city government co-workers. 38-year-old Keele Maynor, the former Chattanooga city employee has been arrested Thursday in Union City, Ga.

Hamilton County District Attorney Bill Cox said a grand jury in Chattanooga indicted her this week on eight counts of theft and one count of forgery. According to Sgt. Jerri Weary, Public Information Officer for the Chattanooga police department, the two-month long investigation by the City Auditors office and the Chattanooga Police Department concluded with Maynor's arrest.

Maynor resigned from her job at Chattanooga's city hall where she worked as an administrative assistant in the city's land development. In an e-mail to her supervisor on Dec. 12 she said she didn't know why for five years she told co-workers that she was battling cancer. She said she was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2000 but has been cancer-free since radiation treatment in 2001.

In her e-mail she said, "I started fabricating this story about cancer in 2003 and it has snowballed and finally came to a head. I am relieved for two reasons. I don't have to keep up this charade anymore and I am finally getting some help to figure out why I did this in the first place."

The Memorial Hospital notified several charitable organizations, including the Helene DiStefano Fund who had helped Maynor financially after hearing her false story. Maynor even blogged about her breast cancer fight online, where you could donate toward her cause.

Richard Beeland, a spokesperson for the mayor's office said, "We're shocked and saddened by the circumstances in this case, but we're investigating and trying to determine what kind of losses the employees and the city of Chattanooga have suffered."

City officials said Maynor in this five year period received nearly 200 days of leave donated by her co-workers. Beeland said the total of 1554 hours co-workers had donated to Maynor, at her salary would add up to nearly $18,000. Plus, she used all of her own days for her false sickness, which adds another nearly $3,000.

Investigators with the Property Crimes Division of the Chattanooga Police Department are currently working on extraditions papers for Maynor.