Deandre Wells Gets Four-Year Disposition for Zales Burglary Theft in Yuma County

Deandre Lamar Wells, 36, was sentenced in Yuma County to a four-year disposition after pleading guilty to theft connected to a jewelry-store burglary at Zales in August 2024, a court hearing on Feb. 17, 2026, confirmed. The disposition concluded a case that began with the downtown-area theft more than 18 months earlier.

Wells entered his guilty plea in January 2026 to charges described by prosecutors as theft related to the August 2024 Zales burglary, KYMA reported. The plea came after investigators linked evidence from the August incident to Wells during a multi-month investigation by local law enforcement.

The burglary at Zales occurred in August 2024 and prompted a Yuma Police Department response at the retail site, records in the case show. Prosecutors pursued theft charges that culminated in the January 2026 plea and the subsequent sentencing ruling handed down in Yuma County court on Feb. 17, 2026.

At the Feb. 17 disposition hearing, the court imposed four years as the formal sentence period for Wells. Court documents filed in Yuma County list the disposition length as four years, marking the legal resolution of the theft count tied to the August 2024 jewelry-store incident at Zales.

The timeline of events for this case runs from the August 2024 burglary at Zales through investigative activity and charging, to a guilty plea in January 2026 and the Feb. 17, 2026, disposition. Local prosecutors and the Yuma County judiciary processed the theft charge across that span, concluding with the four-year disposition issued to Wells.

KYMA reported this outcome following the Feb. 17 hearing in Yuma County. The four-year disposition against Deandre Lamar Wells closes the court file on the theft charge stemming from the August 2024 Zales burglary, reflecting the case’s progression from the initial incident to a formal sentencing decision.