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Jul 13, 2024 · White Boy Rick was still a few days shy of his 18th birthday when the Detroit police broke down his front door. They caught him with 17 pounds of cocaine. The police took White Boy Rick right to the media. The baby-faced teenager, the news said, wasn’t just a drug dealer. He was a kingpin.
Richard Wershe Jr. (born July 18, 1969), [2] known as "White Boy Rick", is an American former drug trafficker and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) informant. The youngest known informant in the history of the FBI, Wershe became a confidential informant when he was 14 to 16 years old.
Oct 15, 2024 · Richard Wershe Jr. was released from prison on July 20, 2020, a fact that wasn't revealed in the end credits of White Boy Rick, as the film came out two years earlier in 2018. Ricky is now an activist for non-violent offenders serving time for drug-related charges (via SlashFilm ).
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Jul 21, 2021 · Richard Wershe Jr has sued the FBI one year after his release from prison. His exploits were fictionalised in a Hollywood movie, and now the true story of a one-time teenage FBI informant has...
May 29, 2018 · People talk about police corruption all the time, but can you break down what really happened in Detroit, and why Wershe was held for almost three decades for a non-violent drug offense?
Sep 19, 2023 · An ex-convict faced a legal setback when a judge dismissed his lawsuit against the FBI and the city of Detroit for years of trauma taking down gangsters and corrupt cops as a teenage informant.
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Jul 31, 2021 · Voice quavering, Rick Wershe Jr., who as a teen in 1980s Detroit was painted as a murderous drug kingpin, dabbed his eyes recalling one of the last conversations he had with his father, who...
