Rayful Edmond III - Washingtonian https://www.washingtonian.com The website that Washington lives by. Tue, 23 Feb 2021 22:32:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://www.washingtonian.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/cropped-washingtonian-favicon-gigantic-138x138.png Rayful Edmond III - Washingtonian https://www.washingtonian.com 32 32 Rayful Edmond, Onetime DC Drug Lord, Has His Life Sentence Reduced https://www.washingtonian.com/2021/02/23/rayful-edmond-onetime-dc-drug-lord-has-his-life-sentence-reduced/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rayful-edmond-onetime-dc-drug-lord-has-his-life-sentence-reduced Tue, 23 Feb 2021 22:32:03 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=1445999 The effort to free Rayful Edmond III from prison got a boost today, when a federal judge agreed to reduce the former DC drug dealer’s life sentence. Edmond, who allegedly ruled a large part of DC’s crack-cocaine market in the 1980s, has been serving that sentence since 1990, when he was convicted for his role […]

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Who Is Rayful Edmond III? An Explainer https://www.washingtonian.com/2019/06/17/who-is-rayful-edmond-iii-an-explainer/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=who-is-rayful-edmond-iii-an-explainer Mon, 17 Jun 2019 21:28:09 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=747686 The District of Columbia was in many ways a different city when Rayful Edmond III was sentenced to life without parole in 1990. The drug lord, who reportedly controlled a fifth of the city’s crack cocaine market, was arrested the year before, when DC suffered 434 homicides and Edmond’s home turf of Orleans and Morton places, […]

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