A man with a silver revolver walked up behind three people strolling in the area between Walnut Street and Claremont Avenue and robbed them at gunpoint between last Thursday, Oct. 16, and this past Saturday, Oct. 18, police said.

In the first incident, a 40-year-old Montclair resident was walking south on North Willow Street last Thursday, at about 11:30 p.m., according to police. Once he reached Claremont Avenue, a mugger approached him from behind and said, "Don’t run."

The perpetrator then asked, "How much money is in the wallet?" and walked in front of the victim and pointed a silver revolver with a long barrel at the man’s chest. The robber circled the victim, going through his pants pockets and taking his keys, cell phone, and brown Guess wallet containing $210. Following the 30-second encounter, the suspect said, "You have five seconds to run."

The victim ran north on North Willow Street, while the suspect went west on Claremont Avenue.

Authorities said the perpetrator was a thin black man who was around 5-feet 9-inches tall and was dressed in a black long-sleeved shirt or coat with light blue jeans and a black skullcap.

In the second case, two 28-year-old men, one from Montclair and another from Verona, were walking west on Walnut Street when they heard someone gaining on them from behind near Central Avenue at about 11 p.m. Saturday, police said.

When they turned around, they saw a black man with a diamond stud in his left ear and his hair in a short afro drawing near to them, police said. The man apologized for startling them and passed by the two victims, but then turned around and took out a silver handgun and aimed it at the men while he patted them down.

The robber then ordered them to hand over their wallets and cell phones, and after they complied he told them to run away. The victims ran west on Walnut Street and the suspect headed north on Central Avenue. The two victims fled to Valley Road and entered Tierney’s Tavern, where they called police using one of the bar patrons’ cell phones.

The suspect in that instance was a dark-skinned black man who stood at between 5-feet 8-inches and 5-feet 10-inches tall and was between 20 and 30 years old, police indicated. He was wearing dark pants and a white hooded sweatshirt with a multicolored figure-8 design on it. He stole a black leather wallet and a red-and-blue wallet from the victims.

After he was punched and robbed in Glenfield Park, an 18-year-old Newark man called his parents to pick him up, but once his relatives arrived, one of the suspects returned and attacked them too, police said.

The 18-year-old victim was listening to his iPod in Glenfield Park when he was approached by a 13-year-old boy from Montclair he knew, and the two of them started talking at about 9:15 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 14.

As they spoke, a man later identified as Richard Chinn, 19, also of Montclair, punched the victim in the face, stole the iPod and handed it to the 13-year-old boy, who police didn’t identify since he is a minor, authorities said.

After the duo fled, the boy who had been robbed called his mother, told her what had happened and asked for a ride. But as the victim waited along Elmwood Avenue, the 13-year-old suspect reappeared with his girlfriend, 17, also of Montclair, who told the victim she would hit him with her scooter if he attempted to fight "her man."

As the victim’s parents and some other relatives arrived, they saw the 13-year-old boy threaten and then assault the victim and they tried breaking up the fight. The victim’s father then escorted his son back to their car, but as he did so, the suspect took the father’s metal cane and hit one of the victim’s uncles in the hand with it. Before they fled, the girlfriend broke the cane.

Police found both suspects on Elm Street and, after the victim identified them as his assailants, they were arrested. Chinn later turned himself in, police said.

The 13-year-old boy was charged with simple assault and robbery and his girlfriend was charged with simple assault. They were transferred to the Essex County Juvenile Detention Center in Newark.

Chinn was charged with robbery and his bail was set at $25,000 bond or $2,500 in cash, according to police.

Officers responding to a disturbance at a local bar arrested a Montclair man, accused of being the instigator of the ruckus, and later found he had a folding knife with an over-8-inch blade in his possession, authorities said.

Police responded to the South Park Bar on Thursday, Oct. 16, at about 1 a.m., officials said. Arriving officers saw a small crowd dispersing from the bar, and while interviewing witnesses investigators noticed a black Honda Accord pull out of the Church Street Parking Lot, located right behind the establishment, at a high speed.

After officers pulled the car over and while they were speaking to the occupants, Lionel Edwards, 23, of Montclair, who employees had identified as the chief agitator of the problem inside the bar, interrupted investigators, addressing them loudly and boisterously, police said.

Edwards told police the car was his ride home, and as he began to approach the vehicle, a sergeant noticed a silver clip leading to a bulge in the suspect’s left pants pocket, according to police. Officers discovered the bulge was, in fact, a knife, and arrested and charged Edwards with disorderly conduct and possession of a weapon, authorities said.

•  Two burglars deceived the neighbor of their victim into believing they were helping him move out, when in fact they were stealing tools, DVDs and other items valued at a total of $1,300, police said.

  A neighbor confronted two unfamiliar men who were going in and out of her neighbor’s unit, within a Forest Street multifamily home, at about 6 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 12, police said. The men falsely claimed that the victim had called and asked if they would help him move.

  The victim then returned to the apartment three days later and found the place ransacked, and cardboard boxes he had filled with his belongings had been ripped open and rummaged through.

  The burglars stole two electric drills, spark-plug wires for a truck, 10 gold-plated playing pieces for a Monopoly game, 50 DVDs and a crate and a bucket filled with tools, police said. Investigators said the suspects may have gotten inside the unit by walking up the fire escape and opening an unlocked second-floor window.

  • Various electronics were stolen from Guerilla Fitness on Elm Street sometime between Saturday, Oct. 18, at 12 noon and this past Monday at 5:50 a.m., according to police.

A three-step ladder for accessing a trampoline and a 12-foot ladder were stolen out of the back yard of a house on Watchung Avenue between 8 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 18, and the next morning.

The tall ladder had been leaning against a shed, police said. Recently, workers from the Water Bureau had removed a fence from around the property and intended to replace it, police said.

•  Police noticed at 6:40 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 19, that a sign in the parking lot of the Montclair Heights Train Station, off Normal Avenue, had graffiti written in yellow marker on the back of it. The suspect had drawn a triple-pointed crown and wrote a word in all capital letters below it, police said.
•  Someone smashed a pumpkin against a 2004 Chevrolet Avalanche parked outside a house on Nishuane Road, shattering the driver’s side mirror of the truck, at some point between Oct. 18 at about 9 p.m. and the next day at 9:40 a.m., police said.

• Two Newark men who were pulled over near the intersection of Elm and Washington streets, and who admitted to police that they had been smoking marijuana in the car, were arrested and charged with having outstanding warrants, according to police.

  Rajahn Washington and Clifton Washington, who are 31 and 35 years old respectively, were stopped in a 1992 Acura Legend on Saturday, Oct. 18, at about 7:30 p.m., since the car’s back window was tinted darkly, police said.

  As they questioned the occupants of the car, investigators smelled the odor of marijuana emanating from the cabin and the driver and passenger acknowledged they had been smoking, according to police. Officers searched the car but did not find any narcotics, authorities said.

  However, both men had outstanding warrants and were taken into custody, police indicated. Rajahn Washington had a total of about $830 in warrants issued by the Montclair and Newark police; Clifton Washington had a $1,500 warrant out of East Orange, authorities said. Police did not indicate whether the two men were related.

• Norman McGee, 43, of East Orange, was arrested on Friday, Oct. 17, at just after 5 p.m. and held on a New Jersey Wanted Person Warrant issued by the Union County Sheriff’s Department, the Montclair police said.

  A Montclair officer driving on Bloomfield Avenue randomly selected and typed the license plate number of McGee’s 1992 Honda Accord into his cruiser’s mobile data terminal, found out about the warrant and stopped McGee at South Willow Street, police said. McGee was jailed as he awaited an escort from the Union County Sheriff.

• Montclair officers went to South Orange Police Headquarters to pick up Tyler Christian Ellis, 22, of South Orange, at 5:46 a.m. on Thursday, Oct. 16, police said. Ellis had outstanding warrants from Montclair, New Gretna and Cranford totaling $1,347, police indicated.

  — DAN PROCHILO

  "Police news" is compiled by The Montclair Times from information provided by the Montclair Police Department. The information is released to the press at the discretion of the department and may not represent the total scope of police activity. Accounts that indicate charges pending against an individual do not imply guilt or innocence.