The true king of cocaine. At his peak he sold 2,000 kilos a week, reaped gross profits of $70 million a month, and ran a | dG1fbTA2STZuTERCbUk
Category
🎥
Short filmTranscript
00:00Washington, D.C., home of the President of the United States, and also residence of the
00:07true king of cocaine, Rayfel Edmond.
00:11Edmond's drug activities, while incarcerated, surpassed in volume and in scope the drug
00:18distribution network that he developed and ran prior to his imprisonment.
00:22Rayfel Edmond III, the biggest drug dealer in the history of Washington, D.C.
00:27To truly understand how Rayfel Edmond became the king of cocaine, to understand the legendary
00:32story of his rise and fall, being the largest distributor of pure Columbian cocaine during
00:37the mid and late 80s, and making $300 million a year at the age of 22, we'll have to take
00:44you back a few generations in his family.
00:47Before Rayfel was born, members of his family ran the largest illegal numbers operation
00:52stretching back to the early 50s and 60s in Washington, D.C.
00:56When Rayfel was born on November 26, 1964, his family had expanded their criminal enterprise
01:02into the drug game.
01:04Rayfel was introduced to the game of dealing drugs at the early age of 10.
01:09This is the story of his 14-year rise of power, money, murder, and the four-year investigation
01:17that led to the fall of his enterprise, brought down by the ultimate betrayal of two of his
01:22closest friends.
01:23Walk down any street in Northeast Washington and people will tell you, here, he was the
01:24reigning king.
01:25Two adults who knew how he got his money.
01:26He was also a man to be feared.