A Common Con Gone Wrong

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Here is my story (the short version): My mother died on June 3rd. I traveled from Georgia to Texas to be at her funeral. I was to stay at her home, which was also home to her husband of two years (my father died in 2001 of cancer). Upon arriving at my mother's home, I was made aware within minutes (by my mother's husband) that my husband was not welcome in the home. Apparently, it had something to do with an incident over Christmas TWO YEARS AGO that revolved around the subject of college football. Yeah, you heard that right. It IS that stupid. So, I am sitting in my dead mother's house, thinking, "I don't feel welcome. I don't feel comfortable. I am going to go through some of my mother's things now, so that I don't ever have to come back here again." So I gathered up some of her clothes, her costume jewelry, her sewing machine, and I took a couple of pieces of her luggage to pack it in to take it on the airplane back home. I took things that wree of sentimental value to me. Not much more than that. Long story short, not only did her husband kick me out on the day of her funeral without a reason why, but shortly after I left, he started calling family members, threatening to call the police if I didn't give the stuff back that I took! A little history on this guy that may be worthwhile to you: his own parents have disowned him, as well as two wives, and his children! He has no family or friends, and he won't tell anyone, not even my mother, what happened with that. It turns out that he had my mother brainwashed enough to trust him to "do the right thing," so she left him EVERYTHING in her will. Okay, so he threatened to call the police on me. Well, I called his bluff and I didn't fall for it. Flash forward to last week. The cops call me and tell me I need to give the stuff back. They say as long as I make an effort, he will tell the DA and it will likely be dropped. So I decide to send SOME of the stuff back. Mainly only the stuff I don't really care about. I send it C.O.D., mainly because I know he only married my mother for her money and that he is the cheapest son of a b!tch that ever lived. I really didn't think he'd pay for it. My instincts were correct, as he stormed into the police station today, irate that he had to pay over 100 dollars for a package of things that are "his." He even asked the cop if HE was going to pay for it because my mother's husband was NOT going to pay! It turns out that he paid for the package, and I'm sure he is finding out as we speak that not everything of my mother's that I took is there, but that there is no way he can win with this. After talking to the cops a couple of times, I realize that they are on my side and ready for this to be over. I have representatives of everything that I took in that box. The only thing that definitely is not there is the photo albums of my childhood, of which he is not a part. I'm sorry, but if they want to arrest me for not giving back a piece of my childhood, come get me. These are MINE. What do you think about this situation? I think it is pretty ridiculous.