lord forgive me for this trap sergeant smack make it backflip telly hank it with the action with the video speaking spanish frank matthews how i vanished poof came back like i'm king tut gold pbs is on a beamer when fat cat with 10 queens up fall off the prophet not the real there's one chapter of the book entitled simply rifle and again if you're from here you know what that means rifle edmonds he was in short a a massive drug kingpin and he had the kind of reach and kind of cachet locally where if he wanted to get to georgetown kids and hang with them uh he could when john summoned him the legend goes like he called him and sat him down and gave him the what for was john really doing that or was john maybe even playing chess with rafael evans he was playing 3d chess as he was intended to do you know the legend of john thompson pointing his finger in his face and threatening rafel was based on this stereotype a racist stereotype of him as as this big scary intimidating black guy right in reality they approached each other with respect and grateful respected coach thompson and didn't want to harm everything that he was doing particularly for the black community in washington and so it really unfolded on that basis i want coach thompson to be able to tell it in his words that's all i'll say okay but it was much different than his portraying struggling to make the process work but when i approached mr edmonds and i was exposed to what he did by the media you know i didn't go to accuse him of anything and i want to make something very clear none of my players at georgetown university were ever accused of anything my players went voluntarily as citizens of the district of columbia who went back to the neighborhoods where they live if you don't go back you're accused of forgetting where you come from you know you know coach johnson if if you go back and i want to say this because i probably you know have been on that same line that you guys have been on because i wanted to talk to mr evans not to honor him or to worship him or accuse him of anything i was asking and pleading as a coach responsible for so many people that if something is going on for god sakes help me and let me know right here behind the concrete walls steel bars and locked doors of this maximum security federal penitentiary in louisburg pennsylvania following his conviction as a drug kingpin edmond was sentenced to two life terms without the possibility of parole [Music] but within just days of his arrival he was back in business he was dealing drugs right from his prison cell just about everybody inside the jail in some way safe form or fashion is dealing in drugs either directly or indirectly he was caught and two years ago struck a deal with the feds ever since he's been telling them exactly how he pulled it off tell me what drugs you dealt with in prison cocaine cocaine cracks crack heroin harry what else marijuana costos with a basic poor cocaine crack and heroin and marijuana there's nothing left you did the gamut yeah i did it all he did it all and then some for starters he brought drugs into the prison through this visiting room he hired other inmates whose girlfriends during contact visits would pass the stuff packed in small balloons she might kiss him and he put him in his mouth he drank a little bit of soda water swallow him you go do it again he's got them all inside got him all inside then when he get back inside the institution he spit them up what's the most you ever heard of those that any one person did i ever seen one person bring i've seen somebody bring in like 60 of them edmond says prison officials know this goes on it keeps the jail mellow just keep people patient you know they'd be able to get high and chill so so they like this and let these things happen sometimes come on yeah that's what they do he wasn't just selling drugs to other prisoners he also masterminded the shipment of more than two tons of cocaine and crack from the coca fields of colombia to the district of columbia in some ways he's like the babe ruth of crack dealers eric holder the deputy attorney general of the united states was until recently the top prosecutor in washington dc it was his office that locked edmond up in the first place tell us the magnitude of his operation from inside the prison if you look at it on a monthly basis he was exceeding that which he did when he was running what to that time had been the largest drug operation in washington dc history he was doing more from in prison is that what you're saying yeah at the maximum at its maximum he was doing about 400 kilograms of uh cocaine per month while in prison and while on the street he was doing about 300 at its max edmond says it was easy to do from behind bars um i think it's much easier than when you're on the street easier than on the street much easier because you're right there with the people that have direct access to the narcotics that you need colombians cubans mexicans all thrown in together thrown in with criminals like osvaldo trujillo blanco or his edmond newham chicky a convicted drug felon he had a high profile case i had a high profile case so you know we would just wanted somebody to introduce us we were waiting for a person come along and say this chicky cheeky this ray and we're just gonna go from there it was right there what else you know what else what else could we do it's right there chicky is cocaine royalty son of griselda trujillo blanco better known as the godmother of the colombian drug underworld and a founding member of the notorious medellin drug cartel does it make any sense to put the biggest guy from dc and someone from one of the largest cartels in colombia in such close proximity you'd know it would be inevitable if they'd come together no i'm not sure that's true i wouldn't make that assumption i would think that both people having been put in federal prison um would have been incapacitated but they weren't a year after edmond met him chicky was released and returned to his horse ranch in colombia and that's when business really took off so how did you pull it off i mean you you were doing pretty serious and impressive deals inside matt i love maximum security penitentiary specifically how did you do it um we would use the visiting room the telephones specifically these telephones conveniently located just down the hall from his cell edmond would contact chicky simply by placing a collect call to a friend in washington every one of those calls was recorded hello this is the a t operator with a collect call who's calling please right will you accept the charge the friend in turn connected him to chickie all the way down in medellin what reason would i be calling out the coach i'm not from columbia or south america here's a here's an inmate that's calling medium three and four times a week so you know i'm up to something just just common sense will tell you if you got good common sense it will tell you that i'm up to no good in one afternoon he made 59 phone calls to five states and two foreign countries i thought that we listened in on their phone conversations i thought that when a guy makes a phone call that that the prison kind of knows what he's talking about all the phone conversations all the social phone conversations are recorded but not all of them are monitored now does that make any sense well it doesn't make any sense except for the fact that they don't have the ability there's simply not enough people to listen in on all the phone conversations that all of these prisoners have and the prisoners know that they count on it well i'm sure that's true but edmund says he and chicky weren't taking any chances they spoke in code remember he used to live in a street [Music] when he made that statement to him he was let me know that the price went down three thousand went from 19th street to 16th street so automatically knew what he was talking about edmund used an entirely different code when he spoke to his distributors back in washington dc believe it or not he used pig latin you want to hear a little bit yeah i want to hear what you think would have could say the connecticut two dude before the community oh i was just saying i feel good today so fast you could do that you got to be faster than 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 now what kind of money were you making out of this i wasn't making the money that i should be making but you know i was getting five thousand here ten thousand there which is which is good money for somebody that's in jail and on time it was good money for anyone two hundred thousand dollars in two years collected for him by associates on the outside but the money flow was disrupted when chicky was gunned down in a medellin nightclub but only temporarily because edmund quickly struck up with another inmate this time from the cali cartel freddie aguilera was serving 60 years with no parole just a cell block away and you hook up with another colombian yeah like i told you the temptation you know you got people every day different people coming to me trying to hook up drug bills and this is something that i can do and i know how to do so it was just hard to say no i don't want to be involved in anyone i can just say okay let me set this deal up and give me a quick 20 or 30 thousand dollars prison authorities never did figure out what edmond was up to but the fbi and local police here in washington dc did thanks to a tip from a jailhouse informant when the feds went to edmond with the evidence much to their surprise he agreed to cooperate with his help the government was able to lock up 15 drug dealers among them some of the most violent drug thugs in the nation's capital why did you decide to cooperate because i wanted to i wanted to put it all behind me i wanted to also i wanted to help my family first of all that was that was the first thing that gave me the motivation my mom my aunt and my three sisters his mom his sisters brothers brothers-in-law and others were all in the family business with edmond and are all serving time his mother and sisters are together at the alderson prison camp in west virginia the feds told edmund they would not recommend a sentence reduction for him but they agreed to go to bat for his 56 year old mother who was sentenced to 24 years in prison for her role in rafel's drug enterprise that's my mom you know i love him so you know when i miss her you know you know i hope she'd be okay i feel very honored i mean he has life or two life sentence and he didn't think about himself he thought about his mother constance bootsy perry is the unlikely matriarch of washington's most prominent crime family before she got locked up she had a 40 000 a year job in the federal government so you you got your kids educated you made sure they went to church you had a good job your ex-husband had a good job he had a job he worked for the government he worked for the government you were middle class people yeah he was not raised in the inner city he lived in the suburbs safe place how many of your children are in jail six you had seven kids and six are in jail you're in jail yeah come on what happened i can't really say and i think basically i'm in here only because i knew what was going on she was a mom to me but also she was a personal friend to me so when things you know selling drugs like i told you before so many things go wrong people get killed people lose their jobs people get strung out and whenever things go wrong or things don't go right in my life she was my friend i go talk to her and tell her about all these things about what's going on with me and she knew about all that and she ended up telling all the things that i told her to on informing on a wiretap and that made her be part of the conspiracy well it was more than that bootsy admits she once counted her son's drug money and she accepted a car a house and other gifts purchased with his drug proceeds my mother always wanted a nice big house you know so i wanted to be able to buy it for one day she always wanted a mercedes i wanted to be able to buy that for when edmond was a child both his parents sold drugs the father allegedly heroin bootsy says she sold diet pills and admits she sometimes had rafale handle the money but she blames his friends for getting him into the drug trade he saw the fast money or he saw them driving big cars and he said hey man how did you do this how did you get this you know the money yeah i have the money or agree just agree i'd say greek this is your watch yeah it used to be my used to be your watch the government now has his watch yeah the government owned it now how much did this watch cost oh close to a hundred thousand was this typical of what you would buy when you were things that i would buy when i was home well you were fancy yeah i was i was a little jazzy yeah i like you know try to have a lot of class did you wear a lot of diamonds on your i wasn't i wasn't i just had one curl i just had a 10 carat diamond ring a three card for my ear and just a diamond chain and master watch very simple yeah just you know simple but stand out today he's trying not to stand out so the feds have put him in a little-known witness protection program for convicts he lives under an alias in a different prison where it's hoped those he betrayed won't find it but if he's hiding out why is he talking to us he says he wants the kids in washington dc who see him as a hero to know that what he did was wrong a lot of my friends from my neighborhood lost their lives because i brought drugs in the community you know the people dying practicing some babies probably was going from crack because of me yeah i feel bad about the name but back then you know i was i was just thinking about the power we try to ask the bureau of prisons what they're doing to prevent prison drug dealing but they refuse to comment so we asked their new boss eric holder who has not yet had a role in making prison policy as a result of the raffle incident a task force was created to really look at the whole system and decide what we could be doing it's been two years since you first found out about this not you i mean your prisons the government the justice department it's been two years and from what i'm hearing the problem really has not been fixed yet i think that's right you're saying that it's remotely possible that as we're sitting here somebody in some prisons making a phone call and setting up a drug deal somewhere yeah i think that's remotely possible but i think we're also going to be in a position real soon to say it's not possible do you think that's going on today right now i'm quite sure it is yeah people are sitting in prison making drug deals yeah they you know you're sitting there you have nothing to do and everybody need money and they love money so i'm quite sure that it's going on right now in fact the bureau of prisons may have made it even easier when the fbi began its investigation of rafale edmond there were three phones on his cell block and inmates could use them every other day today there are four phones and prisoners can use them every day yo yo we back it's your boy popular mob ties we on our way to the district with it chocolate city northwest to be exact and we are covering the city's most notorious for a plethora of reasons and y'all know exactly who we talking about none other than rayful edmonds the third now right off that i know we're going to get a lot of people like we do not need to cover him we do not need to talk about this guy but we can't run a channel like mob ties or a channel about the streets and not mention rayful edmonds iii he's going to be one of if not the biggest african-american trafficker you're gonna have to mention him with guys like frank matthews big meech come to mind waterhead bow also comes to mind who he had an affiliation with but as y'all seen they ran specials on the nightly news marking him the 300 million dollar man and the entirety of that money was made in the 80s because he didn't even make it to the 90s because he was arrested on april 15 1989 needless to say he was one of the richest drug traffickers but he was also only 24 years old at the time of his arrest so that's going to put him in the runnings to be one of the youngest with guys like little d out in oakland and y'all get in the comment box to who i might be forgetting now it's widely documented that rayford edmonds spent most his time in in the cities of washington dc particularly northwest but was not spoken about as much and i can see why because he was so high and the drug trade was his love for basketball and his ability to play it very well at a young age in an article in the washington post in 1998 they would write they can't miss kid when he first appeared on playground courts edmonds was considered a can't miss high school basketball product but they're going to say when he arrived at dunbar high which was a school with a strong basketball tradition producing what some might say was the most powerful team in high school basketball from the year of 1981 to 1983. now some of the notable alumni to come from the school is going to be tyrone muggsy bogues who if i'm not mistaken still is the shortest player to ever play in the nba former boston celtic reggie lewis who collapsed and passed away on the nba court reggie williams and david wingate just to name a few and they were all part of teams that went there in the 80s nobody could really say if it was due to intimidation but rayful edmonds would never try out for the team at dunbar and a guy by the name of james speaks who was the director of the wilson recreation center where rachel edmonds would learn to play basketball would say he was angry with rayful because rayful had the ability to shoot and he would go on to say that he could score 40 or 50 points a game now looking at the life of rapel edmonds money was probably on his mind even at that early age and they gonna say it's in 1981 where he would go on to meet future georgetown player a guy by the name of john turner and john turner is very important because he is going to be the main component behind that meeting between legendary georgetown coach john thompson and rayford edmonds iii so with rafale edmunds's love of basketball and his ability to play you would think that him and john turner would have met on a basketball court but that wasn't the case rayful's father worked with john's mother at the same federal office building if you can imagine that now with john turner being a player for georgetown in 1989 and alonzo morning being the number one freshman in 1988 to 89 coming into georgetown they would build up a budding friendship now i don't know what it was about 1989 but that was not a good year for rayford edmonds because like i stated earlier he was arrested and the government would present evidence at his trial that said that he led a group of family members and friends who would conspire to distribute large amounts of cocaine in northeast washington neighborhoods where many of them lived and where edmonds had grown up now involved in that conspiracy would be melvin butler who would be rayford edmonds connect who he had met prior at a boxing match on the west coast also indicted would be tony lewis who was a formidable drug figure in dc who his son is actually a activist and speaks out against harsh drug sentences in the dc area also indicted is going to be racial edmonds's half-brother emmanuel suton his half-sister bernice hillman mccraw and her husband david mccraw also edmunds's cousin john monfort and edmunds's aunt armetta perry authorities will also go on to nab edmunds's sister's boyfriend jerry millington as well as two gentlemen by the name of james antonio jones and keith cooper now based on the government's evidence they're going to say that conspiracy involved a multi-layered operation it was focused on a two-block area of morton place in orleans place in northeast and that area was known as the strip which served as the open air market for cocaine powder and cocaine base and it was supplied by edmunds's organization as early as 1986 through at least 1988 and operate in the drug business sellers were paid either daily or weekly and they worked eight-hour shifts now demand for drugs along the strip was so intense during that period that sellers sometimes sold out of their supplies within minutes they would say individuals dubbed lieutenants of the organization including cooper and suton supply sellers including at least one juvenile with bundles of cocaine collected money from them and shouted warnings when police entered the area those lieutenants along with millington jones and montford supervised the strip controlling the supply of cocaine and overseeing the sellers on the strip the government will also present evidence that the lieutenants store drug supplies and abandoned houses as 653 orleans place 656 orleans place in 642 morton's place in northeast washington dc now police who had executed search warrants at those areas in early 1988 discovered a total of 300 grams of cocaine and 400 grams of cocaine base thousands of dollars in cash and nine firearms after one search police saw jones in millington watching four other persons clean up an apartment in the 656 orleans place house now during a february 18 1988 search police observed cooper who had been supplying sellers in the 600 block of orleans place when police arrived tossed 1400 in cash now police will go on to recover 125 bags of cocaine and a plumbing pipe located in the basement of the house as a result of that search now as far as the supply chain they're going to say several of the edmonds associates including david and bernice hillman mccraw and armetta perry packaged cocaine at various sites including the mccraw apartment once it was packaged the cocaine was stored at various homes including the apartments of millington and his girlfriend edmund's sister rachel edmonds in suitland maryland and the apartment of david mccross friend james miner whom mccror had recruited into the organization according to authorities they're going to say that the organization also stored drugs at the edmonds family home on 407 m street in northeast which was also rateful edmonds's residents until he graduated from high school and a hub for the conspiracy according to court documents rayford edmonds's armata perry was the primary resident of that household and more than 200 grams of cocaine was found by police when they searched that location on february 5th 1988. now was a lot of loose ends with this organization and rayful edmonds would end up going to war with a breakaway part of his organization from trinidad and what was probably the most bloodiest turf war in washington dc history is rumored that up to 30 people died but i want to say the primary reason or the downfall for this organization is going to be a female or rather edmonds association with the female by the name of alta ray zanfield and rayful edmonds was saying interviews how he trusted this person as a known associate and i'm going to say it was her as well as a few other individuals and a few other acts that pretty much brought rayful edmonds down at such a young age and by the time the government got him it was no way they was letting him out of their grasp because at his trial he was held at almost a special military base in quantico and he was flew in by helicopters every day they did not announce the jury members of his trial before during or after so we still don't know who convicted rayful edmunds and on top of that their seating arrangement was not even known so even if we knew we don't know who even though i'm sure everybody probably voted to convict him of that he and even after they convicted him that's the thing about rayford edmonds he made all of that money but they're gonna say that he got involved in a secondary conspiracy after he was arrested and he was said to move anywhere from a thousand to two thousand kilograms per week in 1992 and they're going to say he was supplied that from the tradino blanco brothers and they were associates of the medellin cartel and there was also a lot of rumors and he spoke on to himself about him being cellmates with chicky or one of griselda blanco's sons so it's just rayful edmunds's story never ends and then it would go on to him turning state's evidence to try to get his mom and some of his family members out of serving jail time and it really it's really not surprising or it shouldn't be surprising because some of the biggest drug traffickers go on to turn state's evidence and definitely when the government start putting family members as pawns in the system and in the game um if anybody could think that think fat cat is one that comes to mind immediately when i think of people that pretty much turn state evidence in order to save family members so that's definitely not uncommon and that's one of the government's main tactics to go after your family or to go after the weakest person in the organization because that's who they think is going to be the best source of information or just the easy way to get an informant inside of your crew so with that being said a lot of y'all need to look at that when y'all doing crimes or y'all out here with a co-defendant you already know what it is with me i make sure y'all follow me on instagram twitter p-o-p underscore eight underscore l-o-t i hit the bell right under this video so y'all know when this real trill spill is dropping and we gonna be back y'all let me know who we need to cover with gangsters we mess with cities we haven't been to y'all get at me on twitter y'all get at me like i said on ig direct message 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