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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Rayful Edmond III, the long-ago drug kingpin whose army of dealers and mountain of profits made him a symbol of the District’s murderous crack cocaine epidemic in the 1980s, has been moved from a ...

WASHINGTON (ABC7) — Rayful Edmond III has been in jail for 32 years, serving a life sentence for his role in the distribution of crack-cocaine in the District during the 1980s. After a Monday court ...

He rose to prominence in the 1980s, spending lavishly and befriending athletes, as the city was wracked by murders tied to the drug trade. He later became an informant. By Isabella Kwai Rayful Edmond, ...

Juan Williams is a journalist and political analyst for Fox News. Rayful Edmond III sent me letters from prison. The biggest drug dealer in D.C., history, and arguably the biggest Black drug dealer in ...

Rayful Edmond III, the notorious drug kingpin who once ruled Washington, D.C., during the height of the 1980s crack cocaine epidemic, has died from a heart attack. Edmond, whose legacy is deeply ...