A federal judge on Monday tossed a pair of lawsuits that claimed the FBI and Detroit Police Department indoctrinated Rick Wershe, a cocaine dealer known as White Boy Rick, into a “criminal society” by using him as a federal informant as a child.
Richard Wershe Jr., a former federal informant and cocaine dealer known as White Boy Rick, is suing the FBI and Detroit police for alleged child abuse.
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com DETROIT — At age 14, in the 1980s, Richard Wershe Jr., aka “White Boy Rick,” became an informant for the Detroit FBI in the war on drugs. In time, he was doing undercover buys for the FBI and Detroit Police. Eventually he started selling dope on his own. At 17 he…
This Michigan Department of Corrections record shows his earliest and latest release dates as never at the bottom right. . . Vince Wade is a former investigative reporter for WXYZ and Fox 2. He now lives in California and runs Informant America, described as ” a blog about the shadowy world of law enforcement informants with particular…
By Allan Lengel Deadline Detroit DETROIT –– The criminal case against Richard “White Boy Rick” Wershe Jr. played out during the late 1980s, when he was a teenager and the drug-trade in Detroit was so high-profile that some dealers were household names. He was convicted of cocaine trafficking. Today, 26 years later, another crime is…
By Allan Lengel For Deadline Detroit DETROIT — On any ordinary day, Richard Wershe Jr. sleeps in and skips breakfast in his prison in northern Michigan. But on Tuesday — the 25th anniversary of his arrest in Detroit – he couldn’t sleep, so he grabbed some oatmeal with skim milk. “I probably slept two hours,”…
