Police in Michigan said one of three men accused of stealing a 14-foot stuffed alligator has pleaded guilty while another pleaded no contest.

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John Earl Sanborn, 53, of Harrison Township pleaded guilty to breaking and entering while Douglas Ward, 55, pleaded no contest to the same charge, the Livingston Daily Press and Argus reported Monday.

A no contest plea is not an admission of guilt, but is treated the same as a guilty plea during sentencing.

The third suspect accused of taking the gator from a Deerfield Township barn, Roy Allen Griffith, 60, has not yet entered a plea in the case.

The owner of the alligator discovered the three men when he followed tire tracks from the barn to an off-roading party, where he spotted his gator in the back of a Ford F-150 pickup truck the men had borrowed from a friend.

Authorities said all three men were extremely intoxicated at the time of their arrests.

Sanborn and Ward are due to be sentenced Nov. 10.