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.

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.