A forrmer PennDOT worker from Pike County was charged with embezzling more than $33,000 by overcharging her department-issued credit card, the state attorney general announced.
Tracy Touzalin, 55, of Dingmans Ferry, was charged Wednesday with felony theft by deception and three related felonies for conduct between 2023 and 2025, when she worked as a PennDOT roadway programs technician in Pike County.
“This defendant was entrusted with taxpayer dollars that should have supported much-needed infrastructure projects, but instead went into her personal bank account,” Attorney General David W. Sunday Jr. said in a news release. “This conduct is criminal theft and a betrayal of the public she was hired to serve.”
According to the investigation, Touzalin created fraudulent purchase orders that allowed her to overcharge her PennDOT-issued purchase order card, with her stealing the overcharges.
Between June 2023 and March 2025, Touzalin charged a total of $57,920 to PennDOT for “janitorial services.” Of this amount, only $24,470 was actually paid to cleaners. Touzalin deposited the difference of $33,450 into her personal bank account, investigators said.
Touzalin was arraigned Wednesday morning and released on her own recognizance.