SAXONBURG — A 72-year-old borough man is headed for court on charges that he inappropriately tried to hug a woman employee at a local insurance office.

District Judge Sue Haggerty ruled there was enough evidence to hold Robert W. Pysh for trial following a preliminary hearing Wednesday.

Pysh, who is charged with misdemeanor counts of indecent assault and disorderly conduct, is free on nonmonetary bail.

Saxonburg police Lt. Kevin Stiles testified that he was called Sept. 4 to the Miller Phillips Insurance agency in Saxonburg to investigate the alleged assault of the 40-year-old victim.

The officer spoke to the woman and he also reviewed surveillance video taken by a security camera in her office. The footage was played at the hearing.

The video showed Pysh, wearing sunglasses, enter the office, remove the door stop and close the door. As he approaches her desk, the woman stands up and Pysh puts his hands on the small of her back.

He appears to try to pull her to him. She puts her hands on his shoulders and seems to resist the hug.

“In your investigation,” prosecutor Ben Simon, a Butler County assistant district attorney, asked Stiles, “did Mr. Pysh say something to (the victim) while he was trying to pull her into his body?”

The officer replied, “She told me that he whispered into her ear, 'Put a little something into it for me.' ”

At one point, the woman is seen on the video pointing to a security camera above her desk, apparently to get the defendant to stop his behavior.

Stiles said the business owner eventually came into the office and told Pysh to leave.

“The video shows he left, right?” Pysh's attorney, Paris Diamond, asked on cross-examination.

“After he was told to by the owner, yes,” Stiles said.

The officer later spoke to the defendant at his home. Stiles said Pysh did not deny hugging the victim.

“Did he appear that he didn't think he did anything wrong?” Diamond asked.

“That's what he said, yes,” Stiles said.

Following testimony, Diamond questioned the charges against his client.

“I'm not saying that maybe (the victim) under the circumstances didn't feel uncomfortable in the end,” he said, “but I don't know if it rises to the level the commonwealth is trying to make it look like.”

The charges were appropriate, based on the evidence, Simon said.

“Our position is this man uninvitedly went into this woman's office,” Simon said, “purposely shut the door, walks up to her, pulls him into her, grabs her waist, and says, 'Put a little something into it for me.' And the woman clearly points to the camera, alerting him — you're on camera.”

Simon argued that Pysh committed “an indecent assault for gratification” and “created a hazardous and physically offensive condition” for the victim.