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 ...

Once dubbed the “king of cocaine” in Washington, D.C., former drug dealer Rayful Edmond III, 60, has recently died. According to WUSA, the Bureau of Prisons confirmed on Dec. 17 that the former drug ...

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 — One of D.C.'s notorious drug kingpins passed away just four months after being transferred to a halfway house. The Federal Bureau of Prisons confirmed Rayful Edmond III died suddenly ...

WASHINGTON, D.C., USA — He presided over a massive drug ring in the 1980s that police say was at the heart of the crack-cocaine epidemic. Prosecutors said in court that Rayful Edmund’s operation ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — The legendary drug kingpin who's blamed for the historic 1980s crack cocaine wars that hollowed out D.C. neighborhoods for decades wants out of prison, and aims to come back to D.C. to be ...

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 ...

A judge in Washington, DC, wants the people who live in a formerly drug-ravaged neighborhood to have a say in whether the one-time kingpin who ruled over it should be let out of prison. US District ...