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 ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. WASHINGTON (AP) — Rayful Edmond, a drug ...

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, ...

At the height of his criminal empire, Rayful Edmond was known as the “king of cocaine” in Washington, D.C. WASHINGTON (AP) — Rayful Edmond, a drug kingpin once believed to control about a third of the ...

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, ...