The Former Director Of Johnson City’s Blue Plum Festival Indicted Last Summer For Embezzling Money From The Event’s Account Of Thousands Of Dollars Has Plead Guilty In Criminal Court In Jonesborough. Deanna Hays Was Charged With Theft Over 10-Thousand Dollars And Forgery After The Members Of Friends Of Olde Downtown Reported Inaccuracies In Their Accounts. Police Said Hays Forged 38 Checks Beginning In September 2015 For More Than 49-Thousand Dollars. She Was Sentenced To A 6-Year Suspended Sentence With The Condition That She Pay Back The Money She Took From The Group Along With A 125-Thousand Dollar Fine.