Christopher Wilson, The kid who was driving the getaway car in the strange shooting of Dartmouth student Meleia Willis-Starbuck in Berkeley after a confrontation with several Cal football players this summer pled no contest to felony accessory to murder, and will testify against shooter Christopher Hollis. Wilson faces up to three years in prison. The facts of the situation that night get murkier and murkier, with people saying that Willis-Starbuck was "amped" and that she announced "That's my little brother right there" as the first shot was fired. For his part, Wilson says Hollis proudly said, "I just scared them cats away" after they took off, not realizing that he had shot his friend. Folks who can't just let the past be the past up in Marin -- a recently-graduated senior from San Marin High school pled guilty to causing $140,000 damage to his alma mater by turning on all the fire hydrants and releasing about a million gallons of water, which flooded the library, while another man was arrested for violating a stay-away order and kidnapping his ex-girlfriend on the campus of Dominican College in San Rafael. Fellas, you just gotta move on! And a man quietly eating an early lunch on Pier 28 (probably at Red's Java House) on Wednesday morning looked out over the beautiful blue bay and saw.... a floating dead body. Aaaaagh! Authorities are trying to identify the body, a 5'8" male weighing 175 pounds and approximately 25-40 years old. ...and after the jump, a summary of all your Blotter photos since November. Previous summaries here, here, and here....

Christopher Hollis, the friend who shot Dartmouth student Meleia Willis-Starbuck over the summer in Berkeley while possibly trying to help her resolve a street harassment situation involving players on the Cal football team, was finally brought into custody over the weekend after two months of searching. Hollis was found in Fresno, where his 33-year-old girlfriend was stopped for a routine traffic violation. He gave the cops a fake name, but Fresno's finest figured out it was him and sent him back to Alameda County for arraignment. The woman burned in the PG&E transformer explosion last month has filed suit. Lisa Nash suffered third-degree burns and a broken arm in the accident, and is still in the hospital. PG&E grovels for forgiveness. (Their spokesman said: "We're very sorry she was injured by our equipment in this explosion. We want her to know ... that PG&E is going to do the right thing for the family. We've offered to pick up the cost of all her medical treatment and her full recovery.") And they're splitting the chili pot two ways -- after some contention about who was entitled to the $100,000 reward that Wendy's put up for information about the finger that got into Anna Ayala's chili, Wendy's has announced that $50,000 is going to the man in Las Vegas who said that the finger belonged to an employee at his construction company, and another person who wants to remain anonymous. Anonymous? Joe Klein, you really do know everything! ...

Thanks to SFist Jackson for holding down the Blotter fort in our absence! The Meleia Willis-Starbuck investigation continues to develop, as the Alameda County DA's office confirms reports that Willis-Starbuck was heard on a cell phone telling the murder suspect, her close friend Christopher Hollis, to come help her break up an argument and to "bring the heat." Hollis came over immediately, with possibly up to three other people in the car. The driver, Chris Wilson, is out on bail, which was put up by his best friend's family. One other man in the car has been reported to have fled to Panama, and the other passenger, a woman, reportedly panicked at the sight of a gun and got out of the car before anything happened. Hollis is still in hiding, though friends and family have begged him to turn himself in. Several local attorneys report having gotten frightened phone calls from him but don't know where he is. In other Berkeley news, a man who was reportedly mentally disturbed rammed his SUV through the window of the Starbucks on Solano and Colusa on Tuesday. Numerous witnesses had gotten down all his information but it turned out it wasn't really necessary because, what with all the ramming, his entire front bumper fell off, complete with license plate. A store employee interviewed after the crash told a reporter, "I cannot talk to you. I am loyal to my company." See, it totally pays to give health insurance to your part-time employees! And back across the bay -- remember the doctor who was found killed in Diamond Heights with cherry pits around his body, but the DA's office refused to charge the leading suspect with murder until the DNA results came back from the cherry pits, even though they found the suspect driving the doctor's missing car? Well, the DNA results are back, and the cherry pits did indeed have the suspect's DNA on them, so the DA will now charge. ...