Brown allowed a search of his cellphone at the Columbia Police Department. The search turned up threatening messages in a deleted folder, according to the statement. He also admitted to sending threatening messages when police showed him the messages, the statement says.

Rakim Kendall, 31, was arrested Monday in the South Shore neighborhood and is charged with felony aggravated assault to an officer, police said. He is expected in court Wednesday.

A Columbia man was charged on Wednesday after authorities claim he assaulted a woman and pointed a gun at her on Sept. 3. Dreshawn Markell Marshall, 30, was charged with second-degree domestic assault,

A Chicago man accused of pointing a gun at CPD officers who were responding to a call on the South Side is now facing a handful of felony charges.