ANDERSON — The second of three teenagers pleaded guilty earlier this week to breaking into a policemen’s union hall in January.

Brian D. Coles Jr., 18, Anderson, pleaded guilty on Monday in Madison Circuit Court to two counts of burglary and three counts of theft. He will be sentenced later this month.

Anderson police arrested Coles and 19-year-old Charles W. Lyons, Anderson, on Friday, Jan. 9, on suspicion of burglarizing the Fraternal Order of Police lodge, 2614 Mounds Road, and a home on Anderson’s east side sometime between late Thursday, Jan. 8, and early the next day.

A 17-year-old male was also taken into custody, but his name has not been released.

Coles and Lyons were also charged for robbing an Anderson woman and snatching her purse as she was leaving Payless Supermarket, 3050 Main St., shortly before midnight on Dec. 16.

According to police, the three teens went to the FOP lodge, where Lyons pried open a window and went inside the building. The other two waited outside with Coles acting as a lookout. Bar equipment, liquor and beer, valued at more than $2,000, were discovered missing, police said.

Later Friday morning, police said the teens waited in a field outside a home in the 200 block of Metro Boulevard until the resident left. Lyons went into the home through a window. Jewelry, silverware and prescription medications, with a total worth of about $2,500, were taken, police said.

Coles and Lyons admitted to investigators to participating in the two burglaries and confessed to robbing the woman, police previously said.

Lyons pleaded guilty in March to aiding robbery with injury, and two counts each of burglary and theft. Judge Fredrick Spencer gave him a 14-year sentence in April, ordering 10 years served behind bars and another four suspended and on probation.

The status of the 17-year-old’s case wasn’t immediately known.

Contact Shawn McGrath: 640-4883, shawn.mcgrath@ heraldbulletin.com