One of the most notorious Detroit dope men of the 80s: The life of White Boy Rick

Richard Wershe Jr., known since the late 1980s by his street sobriquet of White Boy Rick, claims he got his start in the drug trade as a 14-year-old informant for the FBI. The trouble came when the east side hustler morphed from stool pidgeon to dope man, riding in private jets, splurging on cars and jewelry and even shacking up with the niece of Coleman Young, who was then Detroit's mayor.