ROCKLAND – Two 14-year-old males are facing multiple charges for allegedly stealing a car Friday morning in Camden and then leading police on a chase through several towns.

The chase ended when the vehicle rolled over in a ditch, a law enforcement official said Friday.

The boys were taken to Penobscot Bay Medical Center in Rockport, where they were treated for minor injuries and then released to their parents, according to Chief Deputy Todd Butler of the Knox County Sheriff’s Department. Charges of eluding an officer, driving to endanger, and theft by unauthorized taking are pending against the youths, Butler said.

At 12:30 a.m. Friday, Marie Rolerson of Camden reported that her 1997 Ford Ranger pickup truck was missing. Twenty minutes later, Thomaston Police Officer Charles Ball spotted the stolen vehicle on Buttermilk Lane.

When Ball tried to stop the truck, a chase ensued which was taken over by Sgt. Steven Burns of the sheriff’s department. During the pursuit, officers reached speeds of up to 80 mph, Butler said. The chase began in Thomaston on Buttermilk Lane, continued across Dexter Street to Old County Road and then to Route 17.

Maine State Police Trooper Perry Hatch placed a tire deflation device across the road on Church Street in Hope before the stolen vehicle arrived. A short time after the truck traveled over the deflation device, the vehicle went into a ditch and rolled over, Butler said.

After the crash, the boys were removed from the vehicle and taken to the hospital to be treated for minor injuries, he said.

Neither drugs nor alcohol are believed to be a factor in the case, which is still under investigation, Butler said.