By BARBARA GREEN

A police check on a suspicious vehicle in a Bowie motel parking lot Sunday night turned into highway chase for a stolen vehicle after the runaway teens in the vehicle backed into the cop car.

Bowie Police Chief Guy Green said Officer Scott Parker responded to a 10:35 p.m. call from officials at The Park Inn, 708 West Wise. Operators said a suspicious vehicle was on its lot, and its vehicle license plate was not from any of the registered guests.

Parker ran the license of the 2008 Ford Expedition and found it to be reported stolen out of Ohio and possibly occupied by two teens, Matthew Bateman and Kylee Taylor, both age 14.

The teens were from Belmont, Ohio and were reported missing on April 11. The Ford Expedition belonged to Bateman’s parents. Read the full story in the mid-week News.

Pictured: A Bowie police car was damaged when the teen’s threw the car they were sleeping in, into reverse and hit the car before fleeing. (Photo by Barbara Green)