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.

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Jul 13, 2024 · That’s because White Boy Rick wasn’t a drug lord — he was an FBI informant. At the age of 14, the FBI taught Wershe how to deal drugs and planted him inside one of the city’s most dangerous gangs.

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Sep 19, 2023 · A man who served more than 32 years in prison on drug charges after he alleges police set him up faced a legal setback this week when a judge dismissed his civil lawsuit against the FBI and the city of Detroit seeking $100 million for years of trauma resulting from his efforts to take down gangsters and corrupt cops as a teenage confidential ...

Jan 16, 2025 · Alexander Justin White, 29, was arrested Dec. 4 at Raleigh-Durham International Airport while boarding a plane to Paris, the first leg of a planned trip to Morocco, according to a federal...

Jul 21, 2021 · Richard Wershe Jr has filed a $100m (£73m) lawsuit against former FBI agents and prosecutors, alleging child abuse in connection with his time as an informant.

Jan 23, 2025 · "White Boy Rick" tells the story of Richard Wershe Jr., the youngest FBI informant who was eventually arrested for drug trafficking in 1980s Detroit. Richard Wershe Jr.'s real story is even more tragic than the movie.

Jul 31, 2021 · It’s one of myriad milestones Wershe Jr. – who the media and Hollywood christened “White Boy Rick” – says he missed because the FBI and Detroit police groomed him to be a drug informant ...

Richard Wershe, Jr., better known as “White Boy Rick,” claims FBI agents induced him to act as an informant at age 14–and that, if it were not for the department’s pressure, he never would have...