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Richard Wershe Jr. (born July 18, 1969), 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.
12 de jul. de 2021 · To put a 14-year-old boy’s life at risk wasn’t exactly FBI protocol but “White Boy Rick” – as Wershe then began to call himself – was too useful to let go. According to FBI Agent John Anthony , at that time, White Boy Rick was the single most productive informant the FBI had in Detroit.
13 de mar. de 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).
20 de jul. de 2018 · According to both the real White Boy Rick and local drug czar Johnny Curry, homicide detective Gil Hill helped to cover up the murder of a 13-year-old boy named Damion Lucas, who was shot accidentally during a drive-by shooting that targeted the house of the boy's uncle, Leon Lucas.
29 de jul. de 2022 · At 17-years-old, just three years after the FBI had used him as an informant, Wershe Jr. was sentenced to life in prison in Michigan under the state's 650-Lifer Law, a statute that meant anyone...
21 de jul. de 2021 · 21 July 2021. David Guralnick, The Detroit News. 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...
20 de mar. de 2019 · Hollywood made an aspirational role for Matthew McConaughey, but the character in real life was an abuser who pimped out his 14-year-old son to the feds for money.
