Washington Township police are looking for the people who they say were responsible or a string of overnight vehicle burglaries and car thefts in the Bateman Farms development.

Detectives say the suspects also crashed a stolen vehicle.

Police said officers responded to the neighborhood at about 11:07 p.m. after a report of a suspicious vehicle and several people trying to enter parked, unlocked cars.

Officers located a white Jeep Compass leaving the development with a white Chevrolet SUV and attempted to stop both vehicles, but they fled.

Authorities said the vehicles ran a red light at Hurffville-Grenloch Road and Woodbury-Turnersville Road, nearly colliding with an oncoming tractor-trailer before continuing into the Grenloch section.

Two suspects got out of the Jeep while it was still moving and ran to the Chevrolet SUV as officers closed in, police said. During the foot pursuit, the driver of the Jeep slipped twice and was seen concealing an unknown object in his waistband before he fled in the second vehicle, according to authorities.

The unmanned Jeep continued down Eastview Avenue and struck three parked vehicles before it crashed into a tree. Officers recovered credit cards, wallets, cash and other items believed to be connected to multiple unlocked vehicle burglaries in the area. Additional burglary reports were taken on Pennington Way and Upton Way, according to police.

Investigators later determined the Chevrolet SUV was stolen from Bateman Farms and the Jeep was stolen from West Deptford the day before. Police said the license plate displayed on the Jeep had been stolen from Philadelphia.

The suspects were described as four young males wearing dark clothing and black face masks.

Police said the stolen Chevrolet SUV was last seen heading over the Walt Whitman Bridge into Philadelphia.