To those gathered at Clinton Baptist Church in suburban Maryland on Tuesday he was “Ray” — a brother, father, uncle and beloved friend whose sudden death last month cut short his dreams of ...

Rayful Edmond III, the notorious figure once known as the “king of crack” in Washington, D.C., has been released from ...

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 ...

To others, he had been Rayful Edmond III, a notorious drug kingpin whose name invoked the brutal crack cocaine epidemic that reshaped the District in the 1980s. He died within a year of his ...

Rayful Edmond, a notorious Washington DC-based drug dealer from the 1980s, has died in Florida while living in a halfway house. He was 60. Scott Taylor, a representative of the Federal Bureau of ...

To others, he had been Rayful Edmond III, a notorious drug kingpin whose name invoked the brutal crack cocaine epidemic that reshaped Washington, D.C., in the 1980s.