Police arrest man on suspicion of murder
by TP staff
Sep 17, 2010 | 9574 views | 19 19 comments | 40 40 recommendations | email to a friend | print
Late last night, Tracy police arrested a man on suspicion of murder.

Edgar Jose Canseco, a 19-year-old, was booked into San Joaquin County Jail at 4:41 a.m. Friday, Sept. 17, on suspicion of homicide. He is scheduled to appear in court at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 21, in Manteca, though the location, time and date could be changed.

Canseco was arrested following a "high-risk" stop of a blue Honda Accord at 10:02 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 16, according to Tracy police records. Two other people were in the car with Canseco, but the daily police log shows they were not arrested.

It was not clear if Canseco is a suspect in the Wednesday, Sept. 15, shooting and car crash that police have ruled a homicide, or a suspect in one of the city’s other recent unresolved homicide cases.

Including this week’s incident, suspects are still being sought in at least two cases from the past 20 months — the late 2009 killing of Clayton “Cotton” Riggins, and the August 2010 slaying of Lou David Lynch.

Tracy police were not immediately available for comment.

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desirae.s
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March 07, 2011
This Is Bull .. My Babe Didnt Do Anything. Talked To Him The Whole Night. Miss You Edgar !!
kyb
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September 23, 2010
This whole city needs JESUS. Kevin Sandra Mike Chris Kassy Robert Carol, we love you. Some of you were fellow whs classmates of mine & some Tracy,dunken, and millennium.
A_DOGS_LIFE
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September 20, 2010
The last thing I would want to see at this point is the Investigation Blown due to the finger pointing on TP. HOWEVER since Ives and the rest of the Bunch started to develop Tracy it has gone downhill.

We do have the rights to Vote them out

ameghoo
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September 19, 2010
obviousely, he was setup because, mommy didn't teach him any better or wiser to stear clear of crazy lowlifes. we heard it all, how much of a good boy or girl they were and, it is ALL the other peoples fault. fail.
MR.KP
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September 18, 2010
IM COMING ON HEAR TO SPEAK UP FOR MY SON KEVIN PRATER WHO CANT BECAUSE HE WAS SETUP BY EDGAR AN MURDERD!KEVIN WAS HOME PLAYING PLAYSTATION WITH HIS LITTLE BROTHER WEDENSDAY NIGHT,EDGAR CALLED HIM AN ASKED KEVIN IF HE COULD COME GIVE HIM A RIDE KEVIN GOT UP AN TOLD HIS MOM HE WOULD BE BACK KEVIN HAD COMPANY AT THE HOUSE WITH HIM SO SHE WENT WITH HIM TO GO GET EDGAR.WHEN THEY PICKED UP EDGAR SHE SAID THEY WENT TO SMART AN FINAL AN WHEN THEY GOT BACK IN THE CAR EDGAR ASKED KEVIN COULD HE JUST TAKE HIM BACK TO WHERE HE WAS KEVIN DID AN WHEN THEY GOT BACK OVER THERE EDGAR SAW SOMEONE HE KNEW AN ASKED KEVIN COULD HE GET IN KEVIN SAID YEAH SO HE ALSO GOT IN THE BACK SEAT AS KEVIN TURNED AROUND TO GREET HIM ANOTHER GUY CAME UP TO KEVINS WINDOW WITH A SHOTGUN AN TOLD HIM GIVE UP EVERYTHING SHE TOLD ME KEVIN SAID OH EDGAR ITS LIKE THAT AN TRIED TO PUSH THE GUN AWAY AN AS HE DID EDGAR AN THE OTHER GUY IN THE BACK SEAT GRABBED KEVIN AN STRUGGLED WITH HIM SHE GOT OUT AN RAN AN HEARD THE GUN GO OFF KEVIN WAS SHOT IN THE CHEST AN ALL THREE OF THEM RAN OFF TOGETHER KEVIN THEN RAN INTO THE FENCE AN DIED.EDGAR WAS NOT KEVINS BEST FRIEND AT ALL JUST SOMEONE HE KNEW THAT SET HIM UP AN MURDERD HIM I WILL BE IN COURT TUESDAY TO LOOK THIS COWARD IN THE FACE AN HOPE HE GETS THE MAXIMUM POSSIBLE WHEN ITS ALL SAID AN DONE CAUSE NO MATTER WHAT MY SON WILL NEVER COME BACK,ALL HE HAD ON WAS HIS PJ PANTS TEE SHIRT HIS GOLD WATCH AN EARRINGS AN THEY DIDNT TAKE ANYTHING BUT HIS LIFE!
cody01
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September 18, 2010
Angie, if your looking for the story straight, your looking in the wrong place.

The foul language doesn't look good on you either.

Swedes do have a gang, they are called cloggers.

Pretty scary.

So, I guess they arrested this guy because he knew the shot guy.

We should all be glad we didn't know the shot guy.
ChrisRoberts
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September 18, 2010
-Angie

Do us all a favor. Go to Tracy Adult School and get your GED.

That is all.
ChrisRoberts
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September 18, 2010
-Aztec ill tell you what happened to this town.

Mayor Ives and the rest of the crooks on our city council sold this town out to developers who slapped up a bunch of houses that people could not afford, now real estate values are back to 1993 levels.

More than half this town is under water on home values, the thugletts from the bay area roam the streets at night while their drunk and high parents are passed out.

And yet the ding dongs in this town cant help but vote for the same people who trashed the damn place.

I'm planning to make my escape from this hell hole with in the next few years... Wish I had done that back in 2005 when my friends warned me this town was lost..
angieM209
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September 17, 2010
To the idiots that have nothing better to do then talking mess off this horrible insident that my cuz is in, kevin was edgar cansecos best friend!!!the police have no suspects and evidence of what happen that night( no clue what so ever) the reson they have my cousin is becasue he was there the night of that insident so stop saying things about him because you guys like the cops have no fucking idea.the cops need to start doing there job and finding the killers and let my cousin go. Edgar misses his friend so much they grew up together soo please for us stop writing ur stupid comments because your really hurting us!!! People please get the story straight!!!!!!
aztec
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September 17, 2010
To:Chrisroberts

With you breaking the ice with a remark like that, why are you surprised that readers disapprove? And for the record this guy is Portuguese, "REMEMBER" just because it has a "LATINO" name doesn't always means their Latino or sometimes for that manner "Filipino". I due understand where your coming from but you have to look in the Grey area as well not just black or white...What has happened to this town we call TRACY?
ChrisRoberts
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September 17, 2010
-To Concerned Parents

Yes as a person of color (thats right folks I am not white) I would be surprised. Because people from Sweden and Germany don't come to Tracy and commit crime.

Now I am not saying Germans are nice folks, both my grandparents who killed Nazi's for a living in world war two can attest to them being some mean SOB's.

But the reality of this situation is these animals from Hayward or Oakland or Stockton come into our town and terrorize us, and they give all of us hard working folks of color a damn bad name.

I never so much as got a speeding ticket in my life, why should I support these Bay area scum???
doors17
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September 17, 2010
While we don't know the whole story yet, my sympathies to Mr. Prater's family and friends.

I don't recall anyone making a issue or any mention of Michael Schumacher or Melissa Huckaby's race, nor should it since evil as well as good comes from all races. It's not the race, but the individual who commits the crime who is fully responsible.
ConcernedParents
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September 17, 2010
Sorry for the loss of life.

Chris Roberts-What if Edgar Jose Conseco (not the steroid using former MLB player funny though, Ornley) was found to be of Swedish/German descent, his real name was Hans Brinker and he used the former name only for illicit gang activities? Would you be surprised?

just saying......

TracyNative
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September 17, 2010
A racist comment from Chris Roberts, I'm not at all surprised.....
Ornley_Gumfudgen
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September 17, 2010
I didn't see it as a racist remark. Actually I thought he might have know th guy.

Actually I had ta read th article twice because th first time I read it I was wonderin how a baseball star got arrested in Tracy fer murder. Then I realized ole Jose was older than 19.
ThinkInsidetheTriangle
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September 17, 2010
What? Chris is racist for stating the obvious?
PrzGod
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September 17, 2010
Humm a racist remark from a Mr. Chris Roberts! now why doesn't THAT SURPRISE ME AS WELL!
PrzGod
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September 17, 2010
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ChrisRoberts
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September 17, 2010
Hm a Mr Edgar Conseco, why am I NOT SURPRISED!!!


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