Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rayful Edmond III, a drug lord best known for catalyzing a crack cocaine epidemic in Washington, D.C., in the 1980s, has died. He ...

WASHINGTON (DC News Now) — Decades after he fueled the crack epidemic in Washington, D.C., notorious former drug kingpin Rayful Edmond III died Tuesday in federal custody while at a residential ...

1980s drug kingpin Rayful Edmond III has died at a halfway house. According to The Washington Post, Edmond’s death is confirmed by the Federal Bureau of Prisons. The report notes Edmond’s halfway ...

The name Rayful Edmond III rings bells in the DMV and throughout hood barbershops across the nation due to his cocaine trafficking exploits in the 1980’s and 1990’s. While he may have been serving a ...

With his custom-tailored silk clothes, multi-carat diamond jewelry and, according to law enforcement officials, as much as $2 million a week from sales of cocaine and crack cocaine coming in, Rayful ...

Former drug kingpin Rayful Edmond, whose dealing fueled the 1980s crack epidemic in Washington, D.C. died Tuesday, months after being released from prison. He was 60. Edmond, when he was 25, was ...

As part of his effort to seek early release from federal prison, notorious D.C. drug kingpin Rayful Edmond III plans to present numerous witnesses who will testify that reducing his sentence would ...

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Rayful Edmond, a former drug kingpin said to have introduced crack cocaine to D.C., has died at age 60. Edmond was released from prison at the end of July after serving more than three decades of a ...

During the late 1980s, Rayful Edmond operated a violent and highly profitable drug trafficking operation in Washington D.C. He was considered equal parts brilliant, charismatic and ruthless. Maybe ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Rayful Edmond, a drug kingpin once believed to control about a third of the cocaine trade in the nation’s capital during the crack epidemic of the 1980s, has died in federal custody, ...