The year was 1989 and the 24 year old rifle Edmond was one of the hardest working men in crack he had to send it to Kingpin status share with head honchos across America many whose stories were retold through film or TV shows the rifles might be one of the least documented
Over a seven year span grateful and his crew 150d boasted up 300 million dollars a year in profit that grew more Brazen involved in each passing year and made the capital city look like a joke cracking cocaine was ravaging the capital so much that the city’s own man
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Rifle was a calculated man and no dummy either but mistakenly he put his trust in an older woman he had met years before after the first encounter in the jewelry store alter Ray zanville became rifle’s partner in crime for years though she wasn’t from a criminal background
He trusted her enough to move his millions for him but in 88 alter got busted moving rifles money before the quick and was forced to wear a wire she recorded phone conversations with him but Daniel in the coffin was a conversation she had with rayful’s own mother
She duped her into telling her and subsequently defense rifles and talk criminal history with the RICO choice now in order rightful Edmond was arrested in April 1989 at the time he was so dangerous that he was put in the Marine base in Quantico and airlifted to his court
Dates and fears of an armed Escape in court he had an anonymous jury zero actions to public and there was a bulletproof glass around the jurors the court artist was even asked not to draw a jury members faces too accurately and fear as a reprisal against them
After all raffle had ordered some 40 murders in DC some shockingly close to the White House itself so their fears were valid unsurprisingly rifle was hit with life without parole his mom got 14 years addiction out of his seven siblings were sentenced too USB Lewisburg would be his
New home a USB Lewisburg also held some of the biggest names in the code game namely Dixon Dario and Chiki Trujillo Blanco son of Griselda Blanco the two will become his new connects and set him up to move more Dope From the Inside than he had from the outside roughly 400
Kilos a week to run his business rifle would talk to as many as 50 people in three hours on Prison phones even learned Pig Latin to throw off the cops yeah When he made a statement to him he was let me know that the price went down 3 000 went from 19th Street to 16th Street so automatically knew what he was talking about Edmond used an entirely different code when he spoke to his distributors back in Washington D.C believe it or not he
Used Pig Latin you want to hear a little bit Yeah I want to hear what you said Monica would have to say that before the comedian oh I was just saying I feel good today so fast you could do that you got to be fast though if somebody so nobody understand what
You’re talking about yeah and you could just do this whole interview like that yeah I could do the whole interview like that chicky was eventually released and returned to Colombia but despite chicky being murdered in a Medellin nightclub Elementary hooked up with Freddie Aguilera from the Cali cartel and got back to business
Years the prison had little to no idea he was dealing right under their noses he only went down in 96 after someone in the prison snitched on the punishment was 30 more years on the sentence unexpectedly grateful became an informant and gave informed many DC dealers and helped to solve multiple
Murders Raffles informing put 11 other dealers in jail for cooperating his own sentence wasn’t reduced but allegedly he did this for his mother and siblings to prevent retaliation rayful went into witness protection inside the prison today aside from his exports in the code gang rifle was equally remembered for
His encounter with another DC area Legend coach Thompson um Coach Thompson was saving my life um for giving me uh the opportunity um I was recruited by every school in the country for football and basketball and uh an incident happened in high school and all that was taken away no other teams no other schools or recruit me anymore my mom went to
Georgetown in Vegas you give me a chance and he did [Applause] after broadland Hampton Virginia bowling alley in 1993 a controversial trial I highly saw Prospect and now the novice and lost all his recruiting offers and stood to lose his freedom as well after four months in a correctional facility
Allen was granted clemency by the Virginia governor after completing his senior year Alan still very much had his talent but no recruiting office luckily while he was in prison his mom had taken a trip to DC to Burke the only coach with the reputation for giving second chances to talented black youths
Coach Thompson of the Georgetown Hoyas Allen was granted a full scholarship in the rest is history John Thompson was born and raised in DC’s projects and grew to 610 in his teens he played basketball all the way through high school to the NBA he was a winner in every single level of the
Sport both as a player and a coach after coaching Saint Anthony’s High School to 122-28 record he went on to coach the Georgetown Hoyas for 27 seasons back in his college days in 1960 Georgetown his preferred University was segregated so he couldn’t play for them they
Approached him in 72 at a time of high racial tension in the city they hired coach Thompson because he was black it made the city look good and he’d be more equipped to relating to his players coach Thompson built a reputation for his strong presence and being a father figure he resurrected the
Program from a 3-23 record to a championship contender in his 27 Seasons at Georgetown he won seven Coach of the Year Awards became the first black coach to win a D1 men’s title met multiple presidents he also mentored the likes of Allen Iverson Alonzo Mourning Patrick Ewing and Dikembe Mutombo
As for arguably DC’s most prolific criminal ever before he had a monopoly on coke in DC rifle grew up in the household where both his parents sold drug they supported the middle class life in the suburbs instead of the hood but like his parents his teenage years a young grateful was
Dealing prescription pills he graduated to Southern marijuana and PCP too who’s a good student and basketball player and graduated from Dunbar High School in 82. coming out of high school grandfather had three scholarship offers and went on to attend the University of DC but by then the crack business was
Picking up with the Looting full view for poor impressionable kids to interview a fast lane to the top to put it simply Rafa’s friends could afford everything he dreamed of and break from one of them when his operation picked up steam rifle started to use local motels to Banco he
Had lieutenants and Runners on the streets rifle was the man in the hood and everyone wanted to work for him 14 years were making up for five thousand dollars a week in April 1987 Bradford and Company sat front row at the Sugar Ray Leonard versus Marvin Hagler fight after he
Returned to the Hilton Hotel to watch The Whispers perform is where he met Melvin Butler a from L.A Melvin would be ranked for slew connect supplying him with hundreds of kilos directly from Colombia this chance encountered was cracking upon substantially and catapulted his profits immensely grateful was highly organized so to
Supply the lives of people waiting for their fix forever had people working in ships he kept records paid his employees salaries and could remember every single transaction there was a very ugly side to do in Coke in DC when he got in the game grateful never thought it would be as violent as
It got but by now he was in too deep young men were itching the blast for rightful to prove their loyalty to him at the stereotypical crack air Kingpin rightful couldn’t resist the urge to stun he did little to hide the money cars and jury it was bold enough to ride around
DC in a limo and once dropped 450 Grand on Italian garments in the store because he was so flashy people knew who Rafa was and what he did and his influence was slowly starting to infect the players on his favorite college ball team rifle himself was a good basketball player in high school
But at this hoop dreams didn’t work out he seemingly lived vicariously through the Georgetown Hoyas rifle was a fanatic he and his Entourage were regulars at the Georgetown gangs he’d even go as far as hanging out in the dorms and by the Players Pizza as The Story Goes Redford had his own
Summer league team he and the other drug lords replaced big money best on these games he allegedly offered up to 50K to Georgetown players to play for him a lot of money to unpaid and often broke NCAA players even more alluring to the ones less likely to make the lead
He posed a huge threat to the whole program and one of their best rosters in history at that multiple future NBA players and two legends in 1988 coach Thompson had just returned from coaching the Olympic team to a bronze medal when he got worried that some of his players have been playing
For rayford’s team Alonzo Morton and John Turner in particular John Turner and Rayford were childhood friends and John was drawn to the gangster life that raped on his crew lived and morning the number one freshman recruit in the country had grown close to John while coach was away at the Olympics
Coach was from the projects themselves a new full well what came with hanging with grateful’s kind an immediate reaction was necessary he scored the morning and Turner calling the two embarrassments to the school and the program that they were hurting every player who built the program with their
Blood Sweat and Tears coach Thompson repeated the message to the entire team Clarence boutney green was division two player of the year at Shane State and the mutual friend of rifle and Coach Thompson coach using to set up the meeting between the two the next day Grateful Dead neatly dressed with no
Jury on walked into the McDonald gymnasium at Georgetown University with boot near two other men coach Thompson made a note to have him walk in during practice and full view of the whole team coach Thompson then walked into the office and let him in and shut the door behind them
According to a long-standing urban legend a 610 coach Thompson who was perceived as temperamental and intimidating stuck his finger in rifle’s face and demanded he stopped interacting with his players cussing him out all the while he allegedly claimed he wasn’t afraid of rafu his crew or their violent
Reputation the Act was incredibly bold considering rifle was the last person on the East Coast you wanted to upset at the time rifle immediately seized contact with the Georgetown Warriors whether the meeting quickly spread through the campus in the city there was never any reprisal against coach Thompson
Rayford was Furious city-wide so people that didn’t know him had a skewed perception of him it was expected that he’d handle any conflict with violence the legend held for years and both to coach Thompson’s reputation as a no-nonsense patriarch some 30 years later in his autobiography Thompson himself described the
Interaction as respectful that there was a mutual understanding between the two insinuating that trying to intimidate Rafa would have been plain stupid coach Thompson had experience dealing with rapist type so he navigated the meeting tactfully it was a stressful situation considering he had almost no leverage and had to
Tread the line between accusing rayful of anything making it look like a setup and establishing what exactly right for wanted with the players but it would turn out rifle had genuine respect for the team and Coach Thompson and didn’t mean to cause an issue he didn’t handle himself like a thug and
Understood the implications of his involvement with the players Rayford never showed up to another Georgetown game again according to bhutney Rifle smiled the whole drive home when booty asked what they talked about all grateful said it was man coach Thompson’s cool as hell Rayford was arrested a few months later
He hasn’t seen Freedom since the story is heroic today because whatever happened in that office was probably the only time anyone ever stood up to rightful Edmond without consequence and another fascinating piece of crack era America lore
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