A former Charleston police officer was arrested Thursday after he allegedly harassed a family member on the phone this week.
Shawn Williams was charged with making harassing phone calls, a misdemeanor. He was arrested by Kanawha County sheriff's deputies.
Williams had been out on bond for allegedly violating a domestic violence protection order last year, and a Kanawha magistrate revoked his bond on that charge on Thursday.
Williams was a 16-year veteran of the Charleston Police Department, where he was a lieutenant and headed the patrol division. He resigned after he recorded videos that surfaced in 2014. The videos showed Williams' daughter wearing parts of his police uniform, making racially insensitive remarks and dancing to a Ku Klux Klan song.
The recent arrest came after Williams called his aunt and indirectly threatened her husband, Williams' uncle, according to a criminal complaint filed in Kanawha County Magistrate Court.
Her husband recently attended a memorial viewing for his twin brother, Williams' father. Williams also attended the viewing, and his mother was escorted from the viewing at the husband's request, the complaint states.
In the phone call to his aunt, Williams said, "What [your husband] did tonight was unacceptable. I may not be a smart man, but I hear twins usually go close together," according to the complaint.
Deputies charged Williams with telephone harassment. If convicted, the charge carries a fine of up to $500 and a sentence of up to six months in jail.
In 2016, Williams was arrested on three counts of violating a domestic violence protective order. When his wife walked outside with her dog last year, she told police she saw Williams in the alley behind her house. She said he then tried to follow her and she got in a car and tried to drive away.
Williams is being held, without bail, at South Western Regional Jail.