Credit Michigan Department of Corrections A Detroit teenager who helped the F-B-I as a drug informant in the 1980s is now suing federal agents and others for allegedly violating his civil rights. Richard Wershe, Jr. is better-known as "White Boy Rick." When he was sentenced to life in prison for drug crimes in 1988, he was portrayed as a teenage drug kingpin, but Wershe was also an FBI informant. His new lawsuit lays out how the FBI recruited him as an informant at the age of 14, setting him up in the drug world. Wershe said the lawsuit is about closure. "I want this chapter of my life closed. I want to forget about it. I want it to be gone," he said.