Rayful Edmond III, the notorious drug kingpin who ... about being “better than ever,” others were hopeful that his story could serve as a lesson about redemption and change.

To others, he had been Rayful Edmond III, a notorious drug kingpin ... “He wanted to use his story as a warning, a plea, as an example to young people that there are consequences to your actions.

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 Washington, D.C., in the 1980s.

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 ...