Pair Arrested for Two Armed Robberies in Marin County

An investigation by San Rafael and San Mateo police led to the arrest of two Bay Area residents suspected of two armed robberies in San Rafael this month.

A male suspect robbed a 72-year-old man and a 56-year-od woman in the 200 block of C Street around 11:20 p.m. Sept. 2, San Rafael police Lt. Dan Fink said.

The male suspect put a gun to the back of the woman’s head and demanded money. When no money was found, the suspect took the man’s wallet containing cash and credit cards which were later used at a convenience store in Albany and the next day at a convenience store in San Mateo, Fink said.

Both transactions were recorded on video.

San Rafael police sent the video to law enforcement agencies in the Bay Area and San Mateo police identified the male suspect as Paris Kurt Ragland Jr., 30, of Pittsburg and a female seen in the video as Danielle Kristin O’Connor, 26, of Redwood City, Fink said.

On Wednesday around 1 a.m., a 63-year-old woman was choked and hit in the head with a gun until she was unconscious in the 200 block of Merrydale Road in San Rafael, Fink said. The woman had surgery and is in
stable condition.

The suspect took the woman’s purse, which was found at 11 a.m. Wednesday, and police determined the woman’s credit card was used in the same convenience store on C Street in San Rafael, Fink said. That transaction also
was captured on video.

Detectives identified O’Connor as the woman in the second video and notified San Mateo police both she and Ragland were wanted in connection with both robberies, Fink said.

San Mateo police located a vehicle they believed belonged to the two suspects around 7:45 p.m. Wednesday in a parking lot of a San Mateo hotel, Fink said.

Ragland and O’Connor left a rented room and drove away but were stopped and arrested by San Mateo police based on information from San Rafael police. A handgun and evidence from the Merrydale Road robbery were found in the suspects’ vehicle, Fink said.

Ragland and O’Connor were booked in the Marin County Jail. O’Connor posted bail and Ragland’s bail is $250,000.

• --Bay City News Service, photo via Shutterstock