Criminal Justice

D.C. drug kingpin Rayful Edmond, whose illegal dealings involved a massive cocaine and crack cocaine ring, could have his prison sentence reduced by a federal judge. At the third and final public comment period Saturday afternoon, D.C.…

After Rayful Edmond III was convicted on drug charges and sent to federal prison for life in late 1989, D.C. residents could have thought it was the last they would hear — or ever see — of the drug kingpin once referred to as the “Babe…

IN TERMS of criminal notoriety, no convicted felon from the District of Columbia can compete with Rayful Edmond III, the crack cocaine kingpin who sat astride the city’s narcotics trade as it spun out of control three decades ago. Flashy,…

D.C. residents are being given a chance — online, over the phone and in person — to share their thoughts on whether or not a federal judge should grant convicted drug kingpin Rayful Edmond III early release from prison.

The District’s attorney general on Thursday unveiled a website, a telephone number and dates of community meetings aimed at soliciting input from current and former city residents about whether 1980s crack cocaine kingpin Rayful Edmond III…

D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine announced Thursday that his office has been appointed by a federal court to represent the views of District residents in the resentencing of Rayful Edmond — the drug kingpin who ran a major cocaine ring in…

The man convicted of running D.C.’s “largest and most destructive narcotics distribution operation” could find his way out of federal prison early, but not before D.C. residents have a chance to weigh in on what his crimes meant to the…

Advocates say the District's federally controlled parole system needs reform.

A disproportionate number of black people in the District are arrested for minor violations that include smoking marijuana in public, driving without a license and gambling, a study from two watchdog groups found.

Black D.C. residents represent 47% of the city’s population, but a new report from the ACLU of D.C. found that from 2013 to 2017, 86% of people arrested by the city’s police department were black.

The murder of gay D.C. Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner Dennis Dolinger inside his Capitol Hill house on June 4, 1999 drew citywide attention.

For the last twenty years, decisions to grant or revoke parole for D.C. prisoners has rested with federal board members of the United States Parole Commission.

A Maryland realtor and a North Carolina-based FBI agent are facing federal bribery charges for allegedly working with a D.C. official to get inside information on pending D.C. home sales in which tenants would have the legal right to…

A real estate agent and an FBI agent have been charged in an alleged bribery scheme using a program that protects renters in the District from being evicted when landlords sell their property, according to documents filed in federal court.…

A D.C.-area realtor and developer and an FBI agent are charged with bribing a D.C. employee to get confidential information, and using it to make lucrative real estate deals in the nation’s capital.