Rayful Edmond III, a drug lord best known for catalyzing a crack cocaine epidemic in Washington, D.C., in the 1980s, has died. He was 60. According to The New York Times, Edmond’s death was confirmed ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON -- Thirty years ago, D.C. crack kingpin Rayful Edmond was sentenced to life without parole for crimes related to his cocaine empire. He was just 24 years old. While Edmond was never accused ...

The mastermind behind a notorious D.C. drug empire asked a judge for release from his life sentence because of all the help he provided prosecutors as an informant over the past 20 years. Rayful ...

D.C. drug kingpin Rayful Edmond, whose illegal dealings involved a massive cocaine and crack cocaine ring, could have his prison sentence reduced by a federal judge. At the third and final public ...

Rayful Edmond, once the most powerful drug kingpin in Washington, D.C. during the so-called “Crack Era” has been transferred from federal prison to a halfway house. According to the reports, Rayful ...

WASHINGTON — One of Washington, D.C.'s most notorious drug kingpins has been transferred to "community confinement," the Federal Bureau of Prisons told WUSA9 on Thursday. "We can confirm that Rayful ...