Former Employee Sentenced To 8 Months’ Imprisonment For Stealing Cash From Defunct Luzerne County Credit Union

SCRANTON- The United States Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Nicole Hilstolsky, age 48, of Swoyersville, Pennsylvania, was sentenced today to eight months' imprisonment and two years of supervised release by Senior United States District Judge Robert D. Mariani for one count of theft by a credit union employee. She pleaded guilty to the charge in December 2025.

According to United States Attorney Brian D. Miller, Hilstolsky admitted at her guilty plea that on October 15, 2018, while she was an employee of the now-defunct WOD Federal Credit Union, she stole $16,247 from the credit union's teller drawer and safe and blamed the theft on two unidentified armed bank robbers. Hilstolsky further admitted that she called 911 and lied to responding investigators claiming that WOD Federal Credit Unio had been robbed, when in fact she had taken the money and hid the money inside the credit union until she could safely remove it days later.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Forty Fort Police Department investigated the case. Assistant U.S. Attorney James M. Buchanan prosecuted the case.

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