A Texas Department of Criminal Justice warden from Colorado City was arrested on misdemeanor charges after he was reportedly caught fraudulently changing the prices of items he was buying at a Lubbock Wal-Mart, according to court records.
Michael Miller, was booked Aug. 14, into the Lubbock County Detention Center on Class B Misdemeanor counts of theft and fraudulently destroying, removing or concealing a price tag.
Miller, 48, who had been the warden at the Daniel Webster Wallace Unit in Colorado City since April 2025, is accused of stealing about $140 worth of items from Wal-Mart by ringing up $.53 worth of cross stitch thread at least nine times in place of the actual items he was bagging at a self-checkout terminal of the 11415 Quaker Avenue, according to a probable cause affidavit.
The store’s security cameras reportedly caught him bagging about $137.90 worth of items but paid $4.77, the affidavit states.
“The agency is deeply disappointed, and his conduct is entirely unacceptable,” a TDCJ spokesperson said in a statement , “TDCJ is taking action to separate him from the agency.”
Court records show Miller was released Aug. 15 on two bonds set at $1,000 each.
TDCJ’s website for the Webster unit appears to have removed Miller’s photo and now lists the senior warden position as vacant.
This article originally appeared on Lubbock Avalanche-Journal: West Texas TDCJ warden facing misdemeanor theft, fraud charge after Lubbock Wal-Mart theft
Reporting by Gabriel Monte, Lubbock Avalanche-Journal / Lubbock Avalanche-Journal
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