WASHINGTON ( DC News Now ) — The Federal Bureau of Prisons said Rayful Edmond III, a prominent drug kingpin back in the 1980s in D.C., died Tuesday.
According to a report from the Washington Post, Edmond, 60, died suddenly at a halfway house in Florida.
Edmond, dubbed the “king of cocaine,” had an “army of dealers and mountain of profits,” making him a large figure in D.C.’s drug scene.
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He was arrested back in April 1989 and was sentenced to life in prison, but after becoming an informant he was set to have been released late next year, according to the Washington Post.
In a post on X, Edmond’s attorney, Justin Moore, called his passing “soul crushing news.”
“My client Rayful Edmond just passed away unexpectedly at the age of 60,” Edmond stated in the post. “I just talked to him yesterday. I am absolutely floored by this news.”
No cause of death has been released yet.
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