AUGUSTA — Bail for the “North Pond Hermit” jumped dramatically over the weekend, from $5,000 to $250,000, according to an official at the Kennebec County Correctional Facility in Augusta.

Christopher Knight, 47, who allegedly had lived in the woods near North Pond in the central Maine town of Rome for 27 years, also faces two new charges — a Class C charge of burglary and a Class E misdemeanor charge of theft by unauthorized taking or transfer.

Knight was taken into police custody on April 4 after police officials said they caught him breaking into the Pine Tree Camp for disabled children and adults in Rome. The Albion native told them that he had been living in the woods for nearly 30 years and had spoken just once to another person in that time. He said that he committed more than 1,000 burglaries of nearby camps and cabins during that time in order to take food, propane, clothes, reading material and the other things he needed to survive.

He initially faced two charges of burglary and theft by unauthorized taking or transfer, both of which were related to the April 4 incident.

Efforts to reach a jail administrator or the Kennebec County district attorney on Monday, a state holiday, to ask why Knight’s bail was raised so much were not immediately successful.

Capt. Marsha Alexander said last week that the jail had been inundated by media requests for interviews with Knight, who at that time declined to participate and who also had not yet received any visits from family or friends.