Rice student won't be charged in his disappearance

Rice student who stayed missing won't face charges City of Berkeley PD Rice University student Matthew Wilson had shaved his beard and cut his hair by the time he was found in California recently. OKLAHOMA CITY — Prosecutors in northern California have decided not to seek criminal charges against a Rice University student from Oklahoma who was discovered unharmed after disappearing eight months ago. Police at the University of California at Berkeley arrested Matthew Wilson Aug. 13 after finding him in a classroom after school hours with a laptop they believed was stolen. Investigators had wanted to know if Wilson was tied to a campus crime wave that involved stealing laptops and other items from students' backpacks Wilson was taken into custody, but was transferred to a San Francisco Bay-area mental hospital and placed on... [read full story]