I have a possible legal issue with a former roomate of mine.Can he charge on me for throwing away his stuff?

Ok. my former roomate lived with me for 2months not paying any rent or utilities because at the time he came to stay with me he got kicked out of a previous live-in situation with one of his friends and he came to live with me and at the time he was unemployed; however, I was under eviction and was ordered to vacate by the end of the month in november 2007. In the mist of that, my roomate was arrested on nov 16th for aggrevated ault on my boyfriend, which I was not involved in. The cops came and took him away and he was in jail for 2 and a half weeks. During that time there was no contact from him or from his family on getting his stuff out, so I threw it away as I knew the apt community was going to do the same. He gets bail and he and his mother come by to collect his things the night of nov 30 the night before i had to be out of the apt by dec 1st. I told him the i threw them away and now he is trying to press charges against me, can he do that?