Sold A Couch My Roommate Left Over 6 Months Ago. He’s Filing A Police Report

Location: California

My roommate moved out 6 months ago but didn’t notify the leasing company. He was sharing a room with his friend in our home and his friend had someone lined up but it fell through. The remaining roommate has been paying the full amount for the room since then. The remaining roommate has told me he tried to contact him about paying his share until they find someone to take the spot, but he has not been responsive, or so I’ve been told. He left a lot of things behind including a table and kitchen utensils, all of which I paid him $225 for before he left. He mentioned he was going to try and sell the couch since he moved out but has been unsuccessful. The lease is coming to an end soon. And we have a few new roommates moving in. He asked me if I would buy it off him for $250, then $150 and I declined. He asked me if he could find someone to buy it if I could let them come pick it up and I said yes. But the new roommate is bringing her couch by today so it needed to be moved. So yesterday it needed to be gone and the way I saw it was that he had not contacted me about anyone coming to the house to buy it. I was either going to put it out on the street or sell it myself. So I put it up on Facebook marketplace and sold it myself. I sold it for $60. I get a text from him later asking if I sold it and a video of me selling the couch from the ring camera (my current roommate who is moving out at the end of the lease sent it to him!) the door was swung open so the video captured the entire interaction. Apparently he had worked something out and someone had sent him $150 to pick up the couch later that same day, which of course I had not known. He is threatening to file a police report. I just sent him the $60 to try and be done with this drama. But he wants the $150 he was going to sell it for. From what I understand he doesn’t have legal claim to the couch because he abandoned his property when he left the lease without permission. But I’m a little worried because none of the current tenants notified the leasing company that he left. I do have text proof that he left and payment statements on our tenant portal that he has not been paying for the last 6 months. Should I just send him the rest of the money to avoid being contact by the police or potentially being taken to small claims court?