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  DETROIT -- A Detroit-area man whose decades in prison for drug dealing and work as an informant inspired the movie "White Boy Rick" filed a lawsuit Tuesday seeking US$100 million, claiming he was coerced into assisting police while just a helpless teenager. Richard Wershe Jr., 52, served roughly 30 years in prison in Michigan before his release in 2017, followed by a few more years in a Florida prison for an unrelated crime. Wershe's lawsuit in federal court in Detroit alleges that his troubles in the 1980s were related to the pressures of pleasing local police and federal agents who u...

Richard Wershe Jr., formerly known as ‘White Boy Rick’, sues FBI agents, Detroit police Attorney says government used Wershe as child informant from age 14 to 16 in Detroit July 20, 2021 10:45 pm Rick Wershe Jr. sues FBI and Detroit police Wershe, formerly known as “White Boy Rick,” was released from a Florida prison in July 2020, ending his 32 years behind bars that started after a drug trafficking arrest at 17 years old. He became the longest-serving nonviolent juvenile offender in Michigan history. He is now suing the people he believes are responsible for imprisoning him, accusi...

  Share Source: AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File A former convicted drug dealer and FBI informant on Tuesday filed a $100 million lawsuit against the Detroit Police Department and several retired FBI agents for allegedly coercing him into helping officials when he was just 17-years-old. Richard Wershe Jr. filed a lawsuit alleging that he was pressured by local police and federal agents to be an informant, repeatedly sending him into drug operations before abandoning him once he faced legal consequences, the Associated Press reported. “The justice system hasn’t been fair to me over the la...

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 clos...

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