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.

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