CLEVELAND, Ohio -- A Cleveland woman accused of lying about being pregnant and having breast cancer in an online fundraising campaign, and who a local hospital feared would steal a baby, will not face felony charges, prosecutors said.

Assistant Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Brent Kirvel said he declined to seek an indictment of Dawn Brown because the investigation, which he said was very thorough, did not turn up enough evidence that Brown defrauded victims out of enough money to warrant a felony prosecution.

"There's no great monetary loss that's identifiable," Kirvel said. "It seems to be fairly low-dollar, compared to what it could have been."

But Kirvel said he would re-examine the case if any more past or future victims of Brown come forward.

Brown, 45, was under criminal investigation after accusations surfaced that she created a GoFundMe.com page and claimed she had terminal breast cancer while she was pregnant.

The page garnered about $725 in donations in a week.

Brown's husband, 24-year veteran Cleveland police officer Kenneth Brown, retired after he was involved in an earlier crash on Interstate 480 and amid an internal investigation into whether he knew she lied about the illness.

Court records from Brown's six previous divorces show she has a history of lying to her husbands about her health and frequently claimed to have terminal cancer.

Cleveland Police Patrolmen's Association President Jeff Follmer said investigators have found that she was not pregnant and did not have cancer in late 2017, when she organized several fundraising accounts online.

Brown, according to blog postings and online fundraising accounts, claimed to have been in the late stages of pregnancy in late 2017. She told people in those posts that she expected to give birth Dec. 15 or Jan. 22.

But in her most recent divorce case, finalized on Nov. 14, the same day she married Kenneth Brown, a magistrate's order says she was not pregnant, according to court records.

The investigation turned more bizarre in December, when a flier posted at Cleveland Clinic Fairview Hospital warned staff to be on the lookout for Brown. The flier said she "is known to have scouted the Fairview Hospital Birthing Center" and was familiar with the hospital's procedures.

"The investigators are concerned that Brown could attempt to try and take a baby from the hospital," the flier said.

Cleveland police set up a tip line for calls specifically about Brown.

Kirvel said as Cleveland police and prosecutors dug deeper into Brown, much of what appeared to be fraud ended up to be Brown embellishing the truth.

He pointed to a post from Brown on social media showing a photograph of her and her husband at Disney World thanking the Make-A-Wish Foundation for the trip. But the Make-A-Wish Foundation told investigators that they did not actually pay for any trips for Brown, Kirvel said.

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