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 ...

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 ...

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Of all the abductions, this one is different.

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 ...

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, ...