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RAYFUL EDMOND quotAMERICAN RATSquot S1 EP 4 WASHINGTON DC
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AMERICAN RAT: RAYFUL EDMOND III • NORTHEAST, WASHINGTON D.C. • EPISODE 4 • 🐀 Rayful Edmond was arrested on April 15, 1989 at the age of 24. His arrest and subsequent trial were widely covered by local and national media. Judicial officials, fearful of reprisals from members of Edmond's gang, imposed unprecedented security during the trial. Jurors' identities were kept secret before, during, and after trial, and their seating area was enclosed in bulletproof glass. The presiding judge even barred the public from the trial in an effort to protect the jury. Rayful Edmond was jailed at the maximum security facility at Marine Corps Base Quantico in Virginia and flown to the Federal Court House in Washington, D.C. by helicopter each day for his trial. Authorities took this unusual step due to heightened fears of an armed escape attempt. • On September 17, 1990, the District Court imposed sentences of mandatory life without parole on Count One, life without parole on Counts Two and Five, 60 months on Count Eleven, and 48 months on Counts Fourteen, Fifteen, Sixteen, and Eighteen. Edmond's sentences were to run concurrently. Edmond was eventually sentenced to life in prison without parole. • Edmond continued to deal after being incarcerated in the Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary, in Pennsylvania. He hooked up with Dixon Dario and Osvaldo Chiqui Trujillo-Blanco (son of Griselda Godmother Trujillo Blanco) who shared the same cell block with him. Edmond was setting up deals between D.C. area traffickers and his Colombian connect (Dario and Blanco) while incarcerated. In 1996, Edmond and another drug dealer from Atlanta, named Lowe, were convicted after conducting drug business from a federal prison phone. Edmond received an additional 30-year sentence. Edmond's case is one of the most notorious abuses of such phone privileges, and an embarrassment for the Bureau of Prisons. In an interview with the Bureau of Prisons, Edmond said he had spent several hours every day on the telephone, occasionally using two lines simultaneously to conduct his drug business. • Following this conviction, Edmond became a government informant, the reasons for which remain unknown and create speculation to this day. Edmond is still incarcerated but is now part of the United States Federal Witness Protection Program and his place of incarceration is confidential. • In 2019, Edmond returned to D.C. for hearings on whether his life sentence should be reduced to time served based on the information he provided to authorities concerning 20 homicides and over 100 indictments against 340 defendants that helped secure over 24 years of cooperation. At the time, a survey by the District of Columbia Attorney General showed that half of D.C. residents thought Edmond should be released. • Two agents from the fateful meeting in the summer of 1994 took the stand to testify that in their work with hundreds of cooperators, Edmond was extraordinary. • “He was part of the team,” said retired FBI agent Steve Benjamin nearly 30 years after his first encounter with Edmond in the motel room. • Retired police officer Rick Watkins testified Edmond “never faltered,” always providing information that pointed the investigative teams in the right direction. • Both men remembered Edmond breaking down in the motel room. “He wanted out of the game,” Watkins said. Edmond testified he was eager to jump on the opportunity to cooperate despite the risks it posed. “I just felt sick about it,” Edmond said. “I was hurting people and I had already hurt my family.” Assistant U.S. Attorney John Dominguez testified Edmond helped bring down some of the biggest players in the drug underworld at a high risk to his personal safety. • “If they find out, he isn’t going to live past lunch time,” Dominguez said. “They’ll just shank him.” Edmond, who was convicted of drug dealing in a Pennsylvania prison after he was sentenced for his crimes in the District, also worked with the Office of the Inspector General to help the Bureau of Prisons overhaul its inmate telephone system and visitation policies to prevent others from selling drugs in prison. Government officials recognized that his cooperation would constitute the intelligence coup of the decade — perhaps of the century.” • WATCH MORE AMERICAN RATS EPISODES: • NICKY BARNES AND FRANK LUCAS - Episode 1 (NEW YORK CITY) • • NICKY BARNES FRANK LUCAS - AMERICA... • ALPO MARTINEZ - Episode 2 (NEW YORK CITY) • • ALPO MARTINEZ - AMERICAN RATS S1 - ... • SAMMY THE BULL GRAVANO - Episode 3 (NEW YORK CITY) • • SAMMY 'THE BULL' GRAVANO - AMERICAN ... • RAYFUL EDMOND - Episode 4 (WASHINGTON DC) • • RAYFUL EDMOND - AMERICAN RATS S1 - ... • OSCAR BLANDON - Episode 5 (LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA) • • OSCAR BLANDON - AMERICAN RATS S1 - ... • WHITE BOY RICK - Episode 6 (DETROIT, MICHIGAN) • • WHITE BOY RICK - AMERICAN RATS S1 E... • FLORES TWINS - Episode 7 (CHICAGO, ILLINOIS) • • FLORES TWINS - AMERICAN RATS S1 - E... • 6IX9INE DESIREE PEREZ - Episode 8 (SEASON FINALE) • • TEKASHI 69 ROC NATION CEO DESIREE P... • • #AmericanRats #RayfulEdmond
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