A 48-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of robbing two banks one after the other in Tustin on Tuesday, May 9, police said.
Tustin police said Robert Peter Thomas walked into a Citibank on Irvine Boulevard and Holt Avenue and handed the teller a note demanding money. The teller didn’t give him any money, and he left. Employees called police shortly after 3 p.m. to report the crime, and they found someone matching Thomas’ description near the bank, said Lt. Robert Wright.
Officers stopped the man to investigate if he was the suspect. While they were talking to the man, the department got a call from Bank of the West around the corner on First Street and Newport Avenue reporting it had been robbed earlier.
Witnesses from both banks identified Thomas. Though no money was taken from the Citibank robbery, an undisclosed amount of cash was taken from Bank of the West.
Thomas, whose last known city of residence is San Francisco, was arrested.