Can I Get a Witness?
Prosecutors can offer everything from porch lights to housing to a ticket out of town if you testify at a murder trial. In D.C., that's often not enough.
Cover Story
Sturdy two-story brick row houses line block after block of K Street in Washington's Near Northeast section. One street over, on I, small-time drug dealers still do a little bit of hustling. But the neighborhood has quieted down noticeably since the days when cocaine kingpin Rayful Edmond III ran one of the city's largest drug-selling operations from his house near the corner of Orleans and Morton Places.
In the years since Edmond's 1989 conviction on federal narcotics and racketeering charges, Near Northeast residents have worked hard to take back their streets from drug dealers. On a triangular plot of land at the intersection of 8th and K Streets, where Ronald Curry and Gregory Cain were shot to death 12 years ago as they sat in a car, neighbors have planted tulips. A blue sign with a dove on it reads: "Welcome to Near Northeast."
But the optimism and good will run out when you look past a gate strewn with bouquets of dead flowers at the house--or, rather, what's left of the house--at 1123 K St. NE. Through the windows on the first and second floors, you can see straight back to the charred ceilings and walls. There is no front door. Instead, a blackened shelf that looks as if it once held plates or knickknacks blocks the entrance. Posted on the shelf is a fading orange sign that says: "$10,000 REWARD 1-888-ATF-FIRE."... Continued 
Issue of May. 5 - 11, 2000
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