At 17 years old, Richard Wershe Jr., aka “White Boy Rick,” was sentenced to prison in 1987 for possessing cocaine — after the FBI had been using him as an informant to infiltrate drug gangs since he ...

There is a moment in White Boy Rick, the big-screen biopic opening Friday based on local living legend Richard Wershe Jr., where the teen FBI-informant-turned-druglord looks to his father and asks a ...