A man who spilled a blood trail from where he was assaulted on Mission Street to his home on Wheeler Street on Sunday, June 22, around 10 p.m. was taken to University Hospital in Newark with head injuries, police said.

Officers drove up to the victim’s house on Wheeler and found him sitting in a chair, blood seeping from his lip and his right brow, with bloodstains across the entire back of his shirt.

Police said the somewhat intoxicated victim said two tall black men in their late teens, with whom he was unacquainted, approached him and asked if he was from Montclair, and when he said he was, they rained punches on his head and face. After they ran away, the victim walked back to his residence, and when his father saw all the blood and wounds, he called police.

A motorist who had put gas into his van on Thursday, June 19, noticed the next morning that the hatch to the gas tank was open. When he started the van, the needle was pointing to empty and the low-fuel light was glowing.

The day before, the victim had spent $48 on about 12 gallons of gas at 5 p.m., then parked his 1998 minivan in an ill-lit space behind his Valley Road apartment building for the night, police said. When he found the gas door open the next day at 7 a.m. and saw his tank was almost dry, he realized someone had siphoned gas out of his van.

An anonymous passerby called the police after finding a large amount of blood on a broken window of Focus Therapy and Wellness Center at 193 Bellevue Ave. Sunday, June 15, at 9:33 a.m., police said.

Officers who arrived to inspect the window found a heavy concentration of blood on the outside and blood spattered inside the center, and it appeared someone had punched through the glass. They learned from the dispatcher that a call came in the night before about someone bleeding profusely at a house on Valley Road, between Macopin and Alexander avenues, police said.

Officers called to that house at around 11:52 p.m. the night before found a man from New Providence in a chair on the front porch, unconscious, with bloodied clothes and a large laceration to his right forearm. Three women were trying to put pressure on the gash to stem the bleeding while awaiting an ambulance.

One of the injured man’s friends, who resided at the Valley Road dwelling, told investigators the two of them had been at a mutual friend’s apartment on Bellevue Avenue earlier that night. The victim stormed out in a rage at 11:40 p.m. and walked away, and shortly thereafter the Valley Road resident also left to search for him.

He found the bleeding New Providence man on Norwood Avenue and drove him back to his house on Valley Road and called 9-1-1. The injured man was taken by ambulance to St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center in Paterson.

A man punched a 30-year-old woman in the face and tore her purse off its strap during a robbery around 11:30 p.m. last Tuesday, June 17, police said.

The victim, who resides in Montclair, was walking northward on High Street, where it winds around Nishuane Park, when the robber ambushed her from behind and struck her in the right eye, police said.

He then tore her pocketbook off its strap, dumped the bag’s contents onto the ground and took $40 in cash and the victim’s Visa card, authorities said.

Responding officers searched but could not find the robber, whom the victim described as a black man with dark skin and a graying goatee. He was 5-feet 9-inches tall and in his late 30s, and he was wearing blue jeans and a black hooded sweatshirt.

Anyone with information should call Detective Terence Turner, 973-509-4724.

The aluminum siding and a garage door of two houses across from one another on Nishuane Road had the words "Auto" and "Automatic," with a frowning face serving as the "o," as well as the phrase "2AMA" written on them with black spray paint.

The graffiti was made between 2 p.m. Monday, June 16, and 7 a.m. the next day. Authorities are requesting that anyone with information call the Juvenile Aid Bureau, 973-509-4751.

A Harrison Avenue resident saw someone walk across her backyard and into her garage through a side door shortly after midnight on Tuesday, June 24, when she, police said.

The witness’ husband called 9-1-1 and went outside toward the garage. As the resident approached, the intruder emerged from the garage and started coming at him holding an unknown object.

Suddenly the suspect broke into a run, bolted onto a neighboring property on Warren Place, hopped on a bike and pedaled away. Police searched the area but could not find the trespasser. Nothing was stolen from the garage.

Authorities said the suspect was a black man in a blue T-shirt and tan shorts, and he was between 19 and 21 years old and 5-feet-9 to 5-feet-11 inches tall. He was stocky and may have had an Afro, witnesses told police. The bike he rode off on had a blinking red light on the back.

A Newark man who, according to police, was urinating on the fence of the Social Security building near the Wellmont Theater was given a summons for lewdness, authorities said.

While on patrol, an officer spotted Delcy Harold Ariaspagoaga, 29, relieving himself on the fence at about 2:15 a.m. Friday, June 13, according to police. While police were questioning him he told them, "I guess I’m just having a bad birthday," police said. Ariaspagoaga acknowledged that he had been drinking at Diva Lounge across Bloomfield Avenue earlier that night, authorities said.

After being arrested and issued the summons, he was released.

A man who left his 2001 Land Rover Discovery in the Walnut Street Train Station parking lot, after someone gave him a ride home from the Erie Saloon, returned to the lot hours later to find his SUV had been stolen.

The victim went to the bar the night before, on Wednesday, June 11, at 7 p.m. and was driven home at 2 a.m., according to police. When he returned at 6:30 a.m. to retrieve the vehicle, it was gone. NJ Transit police told Montclair officers they didn’t impound the vehicle.

A customer of the Valley Road Quick Chek bought a sandwich, then stole a can of soup on Saturday, June 21, at 1:20 a.m., police said.

After paying for his sandwich, the suspect picked up a $6 can of spicy chili soup and concealed it under a white towel he had draped around his neck. When the cashier spotted him hiding the soup and told him he had to pay for it, he replied that he already had paid, then left the store and walked south on Valley Road.

The shoplifter was a tall black man with a heavy build and a shaved head, police said. The suspect, who was between 20 and 25 years old and 6-feet 2-inches tall, was wearing a yellow baseball cap with a black brim and denim shorts.

While walking his dog at around 8:45 a.m. last Wednesday, June 18, a man noticed his neighbor’s 1999 Volvo V70 had vanished from the driveway and, lying on the ground in its place, was lacrosse equipment belonging to the owner’s son, which had been inside the car, police said.

Investigators believe the Park Terrace resident’s car was stolen sometime between 10:10 the night before and when the neighbor made the discovery.

Another Park Terrace resident told police that morning that someone had entered his truck and stolen a 50-inch flat-screen television he had received as a gift. The television was worth $850. The truck was parked in front of the victim’s house.

Two mountain bikes were taken from within an unlocked garage on Myrtle Avenue, near the corner of Orange Road, between 10 p.m. Wednesday, June 18, and 7 a.m. the next day, police said. The thieves took a silver Schwinn and a green Jeep mountain bike, worth a combined $500.

An Irving Street woman called police to report her son’s green Magna mountain bike, chained to a fence post in the backyard of their house, had been stolen sometime between that Wednesday at 12 p.m. and Saturday, June 21, at 1:41 p.m., police said.

Thieves took two bikes out of the garage of a Hillside Avenue house between 6 a.m. Thursday, June 19, and that time the following morning, police said. The thieves removed parts of a window at the back of the garage, partly unscrewed interior light bulbs so they wouldn’t work, then used a pull chain to bypass the door opener and raise the door, allowing the bikes to be taken out the front of the garage. A blue-and-white Raleigh men’s mountain bike and a blue women’s Trek Navigator were taken.

Four boys between 16 and 18 years old removed signs demarcating a two-hour parking zone and left them lying on the ground on Highland Avenue shortly after midnight Saturday, June 21.

Bloomfield resident Adam Erik Batkay, 37, was apprehended by police in Montville and brought shortly after midnight Friday, June 13, to the Montclair police, who had issued a $1,000 warrant for the suspect, police said.