Judge Increases Bail for Greenbrae Bank Robber

Thomas Hobson is scheduled to appear in Marin County Superior Court next week to enter a plea after being charged with robbing and threatening to blow up the Wells Fargo Bank branch at the Bon Air Shopping Center on Saturday.

A judge Wednesday increased Hobson's bail from $75,000 to $350,000, according to a report from the Marin IJ.

The Central Marin Police responded to several panic alarms from inside the bank on Saturday afternoon. According to police reports, "A bank employee also called to report that a robbery was in progress. The bank employee later told dispatch that the suspect demanded money and placed a gummy substance on the teller counter which he told them was a bomb that would explode in five minutes."

An analysis of the substance later revealed it was not an explosive.

The suspect fled on foot and police immediately evacuated the area. Hobson was arrested an hour later at the Chevron Station on Sir Francis Drake Boulevard in Greenbrae.

Hobson, 51, has a 2002 conviction in Alameda County for robbery.