FORSYTH COUNTY — No one wants cancer. Save apparently for one Cumming woman, who was recently arrested for reportedly accepting nearly $25,000 in donations, free trips and gifts by pretending to have a terminal form of the disease.

Forsyth County Sheriff’s detectives say Mary Bennett, 29, started faking Stage IV ovarian cancer in 2010.

“She got so much,” said Deputy Epifanio Rodriguez, a spokesman for the sheriff’s office. “She got a trip to Houston, which she said she was using to get medical treatments. She got Braves tickets and signed letters from players. She went on a hunting trip. It was just so many different events.”

According to the sheriff’s office, Bennett also went skydiving, rode in a hot air balloon, took a free trip to New Orleans, visited Biloxi’s Treasure Bay, rode the Skyview in Atlanta and went fishing in the Gulf of Mexico.

Bennett, a licensed practical nurse who is currently unemployed, has been charged with misdemeanor theft by taking and felony first-degree forgery.

She posted a $2,365 bond and was released from the Forsyth County Jail three days after her arrest earlier this month.

The theft charge is only a misdemeanor because more businesses have not pressed charges against her, according to Rodriguez.

“We’re almost positive there are more victims out there,” he said. “She fed off the kindheartedness of the people in this community.”

The forgery charge came after Sheriff’s Det. Jeffrey Roe asked Bennett to provide medical records to prove her time in Houston was spent on getting treatment.

“At first, she began to give him letters from hospitals that were never signed by a doctor,” Rodriguez said.

Then she forged the signatures.

Bennett reportedly signed the name of a doctor from MD Anderson Cancer Center, a treatment facility run by the University of Texas.

“She was going to the hospital and was not actually having procedures,” Rodriguez said. “She would have people take her, but she never wanted anyone going in with her.”

The Houston trip was made possible by a fundraiser at Donut Connection in north Forsyth. The spaghetti dinner raised $4,000.

“He didn’t know. No one knew,” said Rodriguez of the restaurant’s owner. “The $4,000 included the fact that he took several hundred out of his own pocket and gave it to her.”

At one point, Rodriguez said, Bennett left Northside Hospital with two bandages on her head and said she had a procedure to remove tumors from her brain stem.

“Of course, [Roe’s] investigation found she never had that procedure and never had those tumors,” he said.

The sheriff’s office wants anyone who thinks they may be a victim of Bennett to come forward. More charges could be added as they do. To contact Detective Roe, call (770) 781-3038.