Rayful Edmond III, a notorious D.C. drug trafficker who was found responsible for bringing cocaine into the District, died ...

In the height of the crack epidemic of the 1980s, young Black men fell victim to deadly overdoses at higher rates than any other ethnic group. Forty years later in 2024, the group with the highest ...

Rayful Edmond III, a drug lord best known for catalyzing a crack cocaine epidemic in Washington, D.C., in the 1980s, has died ...

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Notorious drug kingpin Rayful Edmond, the man accused of bringing the crack epidemic to D.C., has died at the age of 60.

Former drug kingpin Rayful Edmond, whose dealing fueled the 1980s crack epidemic in Washington, D.C. died Tuesday, months after being released from prison. He was 60. Edmond, when he was 25 ...

Arrested in 1989 at age 24, he was sentenced to life in prison for his crimes, later receiving an additional 30 years for continuing illegal activities from within prison.

After that year, drug use returned to a steady increase. The same time period saw a nationwide crack epidemic that took up the whole of the 1980s and early years of the 1990s. Maybe this age-group ...

Rayful Edmond was one of the most prominent drug lords in the United States’ capital in the 1980s. Prosecutors say his drug empire moved 400 pounds of cocaine and generated up to $2 million per week.

Rayful Edmond III, a drug lord best known for catalyzing a crack cocaine epidemic in Washington, D.C. in the 1980s, has died. He was 60. According to The New York Times, Edmond’s death was ...