Man Arrested After Attempting to Break Into Meadows Hospital With Stick, Police Say

Staff report

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — May 8, 2025

A 25-year-old Solsberry man was arrested late Tuesday night after allegedly attempting to break into Meadows Hospital and damaging several windows, including one in a juvenile patient’s room, according to Bloomington Police.

Officers responded to the facility, located at 3600 N. Prow Road, around 11:20 p.m. on May 27 after hospital employees reported hearing suspicious noises in a normally unoccupied area of the building, said Capt. Ryan Pedigo of the Bloomington Police Department.

As officers searched the hospital, they entered the secured juvenile patient area and found a man crouched on top of a nurse’s desk holding what appeared to be a club or stick. Police ordered the man to drop the object, which he did, and officers took him into custody without further incident.

The suspect, identified as Jeffery A. Caldwell Jr., was found carrying a bag that contained suspected marijuana, police said.

Surveillance video later revealed that Caldwell had been dropped off at the hospital’s front entrance by a neighboring county’s police department. He was then seen attempting to enter the building by pulling on doors and striking the structure with a large stick-like object. Several exterior windows were shattered, including one to a room housing a juvenile patient. Hospital staff, hearing the noise, quickly evacuated the patient to a secure area, police said.

Caldwell was booked into the Monroe County Jail and faces preliminary charges of criminal trespass, criminal mischief, and possession of marijuana.

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