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 ...

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 — 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 (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 (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 ...

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 ...

D.C. drug kingpin Rayful Edmond, whose illegal dealings involved a massive cocaine and crack cocaine ring, could have his prison sentence reduced by a federal judge. At the third and final public ...