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 ...

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 ...

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Over the years, John Thompson Jr.’s meeting with drug kingpin Rayful Edmond III had become the stuff of legend. In 1989, the Georgetown coach famously requested a meeting with the D.C. gangster and ...

Rayful Edmond III, the notorious kingpin convicted in the 1990s for distributing crack cocaine in the District during the 1980s has been moved into community confinement ahead of his 2025 release date ...

A D.C. cocaine kingpin who’s been in prison for more than 35 years has been released. Rayful Edmond, 59, got out Wednesday and is in a Nashville halfway house, the Federal Bureau of Prisons said. The ...