CORAOPOLIS, Pa.—When a 73-year-old woman couldn't explain why her painkilling medication kept disappearing, police in her Pittsburgh suburb gave her a video surveillance camera to figure out why.

When she forgot to turn it on, the police did it for her while hiding in her apartment. And police say that's when they found a former maintenance man was using a key he had copied to enter her apartment and steal the Vicodin pills.

Moon Township police Chief Leo McCarthy says, "In a small community, we can provide more individual attention."

Fifty-seven-year-old Richard Jugovich was the object of that attention Wednesday, and will face burglary, theft and other charges at a preliminary hearing on Tuesday.

Online court records don't list an attorney for Jugovich, who doesn't have a listed phone. Police say he still denies stealing the drugs.