Set in 1980s Detroit at the height of the crack epidemic and the War on Drugs, WHITE BOY RICK is based on the moving story of a blue-collar father and his teenage son, Rick Wershe Jr., who became ...

In 2018, the movie White Boy Rick, starring Matthew McConaughey and Richie Merritt, dramatized the true story of Richard “Rick” Wershe Jr. At just 14, Rick became the youngest FBI informant the agency ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Charlie LeDuff will interview Richard “White Boy Rick” Wershe Jr. on a stage in Warren in March. Wershe, a former FBI informant who spend decades in prison for ...

“White Boy Rick” tells the fascinating true story of a teenage FBI informant and drug kingpin as he deals with the struggles of living in poverty. The plot takes place over the course of a few years, ...