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 ...

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 ...

A federal judge on Tuesday agreed to reduce the life sentence being served by onetime D.C. drug kingpin Rayful Edmond to 20 years, putting the man who once led the city’s biggest crack-smuggling ring ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 -- 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 ...

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 ...