Richard Wershe (Criminal) – Overview, Biography

Name:Richard Wershe
Occupation: Criminal
Gender:Male
Birth Day: July 18,
1969
Age: 53
Birth Place: Detroit,
United States
Zodiac Sign:Cancer

Richard Wershe

Richard Wershe was born on July 18, 1969 in Detroit, United States (53 years old). Richard Wershe is a Criminal, zodiac sign: Cancer. Nationality: United States. Approx. Net Worth: Undisclosed.

Trivia

A movie based on his life called White Boy Rick was released in 2018. He was later granted parole in Michigan in 2017 after serving nearly 30 years. 

Net Worth 2020

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Before Fame

He served as an informant for the FBI between the ages of 14 and 16. He began selling drugs at age 16, as he could not escape the life he had begun in Detroit’s criminal underworld. 

Biography

Biography Timeline

1987

The name “White Boy Rick” was not a street name that Wershe used himself, nor was it one he was ever called by those with whom he associated. The name was instead given to him by reporters who covered his case. When Wershe was 16 the FBI, having secured 20 convictions through his infiltration of a violent drug gang, ceased to employ him as an informant. In 1987, at 17 years of age, Wershe was arrested for possessing cocaine in excess of eight kilograms (17.6 pounds).

2003

He was sentenced to life in prison in Michigan under the state’s 650-Lifer Law, a drug statute that penalized those found in possession of more than 650 grams (22.92 oz) of cocaine or heroin with life imprisonment without parole. The law was overturned but he was rejected as a menace to society by the Michigan Parole Board in 2003, despite (or perhaps because of) having assisted the FBI in the 1990s with a sting unsuccessfully targeting Gil Hill and drawing in the relatives of influential city politicians. Publicity about the case in 2017, when by which time he had spent nearly three decades behind bars in Michigan as a nonviolent drug offender whose offense was committed when he was 17, led to him being paroled, but directly to US Marshals who took him to begin serving five years in Florida State Prison on a 2008 car theft ring conviction (crime committed behind bars). In 2019, his application was denied by the Florida clemency board.

2018

White Boy Rick, a film based on his life, was released on September 14, 2018. The documentary chronicling the case of Richard Wershe Jr., White Boy, won the 2017 FREEP Film Festival Audience Choice Award. It was released in 2017 and began airing on the Starz network in 2019.

2020

On July 20, 2020, Wershe was released from custody in Florida, having completed his sentence with credits for good behavior.

🎂 Upcoming Birthday

Currently, Richard Wershe is 53 years, 10 months and 22 days old. Richard Wershe will celebrate 54th birthday on a Tuesday 18th of July 2023.

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