FAIRHOPE, Ala. — An attempted break-in at Dahlgren Hall on the Faulkner State Community College campus was discovered Wednesday morning after a large amount of blood was found in a downtown parking lot.

Police officials say Robert Adams, 25, of Loxley was arrested later that day and charged with attempted burglary for allegedly breaking a window to gain entrance to the building. Adams reportedly cut his wrist during the incident.

According to Thomas Hospital officials, Adams was admitted to the hospital and treated, but was released later in the day. A check with a manager at Papa’s Pizza on Fairhope Avenue, where Adams was employed, confirmed Friday he had not shown up for work since then.

Fairhope Police Detective Sgt. David Martinez said Adams is out on bond, after being taken into custody at the hospital and charged with the class-A misdemeanor.

Martinez said after Adams was traced to Thomas, he admitted to investigators he punched the window, but claimed he had no intention to enter the building. Although police suspect alcohol might have been a factor leading to the incident, no toxicology tests on the injured man were conducted, he said.

The 8-by-30-inch plate glass window will cost around $100 to replace, according to the police report furnished Friday. Officers Shane Leiser and Stephanie Hollinghead responded to the call.

Pete Blohme, who owns Panini Pete’s restaurant in the French Quarter shopping village, said he first saw the blood in the public parking lot adjacent to Fairhopers Community Park when he parked in his usual space that morning. A pair of rubber gloves apparently taken from a chemical storage room behind his restaurant and a small case possibly containing a cell phone had been dropped at the scene, he said.

“I saw where it started and where it ended,” Blohme said, referring to the bloody trail. Blohme called police while a man who lived in a nearby apartment secured the first crime scene with an orange traffic cone. Blohme then set out on foot to follow the blood.

He said large red drops on Masonic Drive and on the sidewalks along Section Street and Johnson Avenue led him to a dirt alley behind some Fairhope Avenue businesses and then to the Faulkner campus. Blohme said he and someone on the college’s maintenance staff followed the trail further until they found the broken window and blood on the wall outside the meeting space. Police were again called, and an additional officer was dispatched to the campus.

“I don’t know any details, other than when I came to work yesterday morning, there was blood all over the sidewalk in front of my building,” Dr. John Borom, director of the Faulkner campus, said Thursday. “It was a mess. I followed the trail to Dalhgren Hall.”

Borom said someone must have cut an artery trying to get in because they had broken a small window and there was a large amount of blood there. He said others who had followed the trail from the lot behind the French Quarter were already there.

“They tracked the blood to Faulkner,” he said. “I understand the person was in Thomas Hospital and they had to do surgery that night.”

He said he was told at the time someone had called police and gave a report, and that some gloves and a cell phone were found in the area where the trail ended.

Borom noted nothing was missing from Dahlgren Hall.

“There was nothing to take,” he said. “It was just folding chairs in there.”

Blohme said, “At first I thought it might be someone playing a joke. He apparently broke in there and severed an artery. They (police) thought they already had the guy because he was already at the hospital for surgery on a severed artery.”

Staff Writer Mike Odom contributed to this report.