PORTLAND — Two of three people charged with stealing guns in order to sell them to buy drugs have changed their pleas to guilty and the third is scheduled to do so on Thursday.

Cole Meserve, 21, and Christopher Michaud, 23, entered guilty pleas to charges of conspiracy to possess one or more stolen firearms and possession of one or more stolen firearms at the U.S. District Court in Portland on Monday.

They face up to five years in federal prison on the first count, and up to 10 years in the second, according to documents on file at the federal court.

Amber Meserve, Cole’s sister, who was living with Michaud in Limerick at the time, is scheduled to change her plea to guilty on Thursday. Cole Meserve lived in Standish.

According to the prosecution’s version of the case, beginning in May of 2014, Michaud and Cole Meserve began to commit burglaries in order to obtain items of value that could be sold for cash or traded for drugs. Amber Meserve allegedly became involved in August of 2014, as a driver and lookout for the other two. According to Assistant U.S. Attorney Benjamin Block, the co-conspirators targeted commercial and residential properties and then stored the items they stole at their homes and in a storage unit Michaud had rented.

Around Oct. 1, 2014, they burglarized a home in Boston where Cole Meserve and Michaud stole a Marlin rifle, a Remington shotgun and a semi-automatic pistol. On Nov. 21, 2014 law enforcement executed multiple search warrants and recovered items in Michaud and Amber Meserve’s home in Limerick, including motorcycles, electronics, tools and more, and recovered seven firearms form the storage unit rented by Michaud.

Police also alleged the trio stole 15 firearms in Lyman and 3 in Sebago.

Sentencing dates for Cole Meserve and Michaud have not been set.— Senior Staff Writer Tammy Wells can be contacted at 324-4444 (local call in Sanford) or 282- 1535, ext. 327 or [email protected].