Rayful Edmond III, whose name was synonymous with D.C.’s crack trade, hoped to mentor young Washingtonians upon his release ...

Edmond died last week at the age of 60. He was on the verge of working his way free from a life sentence with no parole for dealing thousands of pounds of cocaine a month as the kingpin of D.C.’s ...

Rayful Edmond III, notorious for fueling Washington D.C.'s crack cocaine epidemic, dies at 60. His influence and legacy ...

The Federal Bureau of Prisons confirmed Rayful Edmond III died suddenly Tuesday evening at a halfway house in Florida.

Rayful Edmond III, former Washington D.C. drug kingpin in the 1980s, has passed away while living at a halfway house in ...

Rayful Edmond, a dr*g kingpin during the crack epidemic of the 1980s, has died. One Raylful's friends believes that he was ...

Arrested in 1989 at age 24, he was sentenced to life in prison for his crimes, later receiving an additional 30 years for continuing illegal activities from within prison.

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 ...

Billy Murphy who had represented Edmond in court, said a failed education system is in part to blame for the D.C. drug ...