[Albion Wilde]

....possibility that the perps entered the area by mistake and crashed through a barrier at the checkpoint out of panic (due to having contraband in the car) in an attempt to flee by turning around just past the checkpoint might be a viable explanation...

...while dressed as women. Right.

[iowacornman]

Clearly terrorists. Why do we lie to our citizens? I don’t believe the government— ever.

[Zeppo]

If you were a known felon, unexpectedly approaching a government checkpoint in a stolen car, a man dressed as a woman, with a companion who is also a man dressed as a women, with an illegal gun and cocaine in your possession, would you have stopped or made an attempt to get away?

[Zeppo]

From the Washington Post:

Law enforcement officials familiar with the case said the two men in the vehicle were dressed as women and that they had earlier robbed another man of the SUV from a motel on Route 1 in Howard County.

One of the officials, who spoke on the condition they not be named to discuss a pending case, said the incident began in Baltimore City on Sunday when the three met. The exact circumstances were still being sorted out by police. Several law enforcement officials said the trio spent the night at a Howard County motel.

Two men, dressed as women, at least one of them purportedly a known felon, spend the night at a motel with a third man, from whom they stole an SUV, with cocaine and guns possibly involved, after which they end up driving to Ft. Meade and end up crashing into a police SUV during a gunfight.

I could be wrong, but somehow that doesn't sound like the setup for a typical terror plot, rather it sounds more like Eric Holder's or Tim Cooks people having a typical weekend 'party'. Then again, typical terrorists are not the sharpest knives in the drawer, so who knows...