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The gates couldn’t swing open soon enough. Former Detroit teenage drug boss and illegal underage FBI mole Richard “White Boy Rick” Wershe walked free last week after 32½ years in prison. He was the longest-serving nonviolent juvenile offender in American history.

A Hollywood film depicting Wershe’s life story hit theaters in September 2018.

The 51-year-old Wershe was released from a Florida halfway house on July 20. He was expected to return to Detroit, the city where he dominated the headlines for much of the late 1980s. At the time, the public had no clue he was on Uncle Sam’s payroll for a majority of his reign on the streets at the height of Motown’s glitzy, neon-infused coke era. He will be on parole restrictions for the next 13 months.

Wershe’s “White Boy Rick” alter ego — flashy, fast-talking and quick-witted — became a genuine icon of the city in the “Greed is good” decade. He should have been in high school. Instead, he transfixed the news media with his flair as part of the dope-boy chic jet-set crowd (mink coat, fat gold chains, customized “Snowman” license plate), the company he kept in his rise up the underworld food chain (all the era’s biggest African-American drug kingpins twice his age) and the women he dated (most notably Cathy Volsan, Detroit Mayor Coleman Young’s favorite niece and wife of his mentor in the dope game, eastside crime lord Johnny Curry). All before he was 18.

And that wasn’t even the half it.

According to the federal government, Wershe was the most crucial and productive informant the DEA in Michigan had ever had. He was recruited straight out of the eighth grade in June 1984 and put to work as a mole by a federal task force made up of the DEA, FBI, ATF and Detroit Police Department investigating the Curry Brothers Gang on the city’s eastside.

The task force instructed the cocky 14-year old to gain Curry’s confidence and he did, getting paid more than $60,000 over the next few years to feed the feds intelligence on Curry Brothers Gang affairs and the activities of other influential gangland figures he managed to get close to. Wershe met members of the task force through his father, Richard Wershe Sr., a local gun dealer, petty hustler and federal informant who was portrayed by Oscar-winner Matthew McConaughey in the movie two years ago.

The Curry Brothers Gang was busted in the spring of 1987, months after the task force cut ties with Wershe. Just weeks after Curry was taken off the streets, Wershe, 17 at the time, was pulled over in a routine traffic stop in front of his grandmother’s house on the late afternoon of May 22, 1987, for slow-rolling a stop sign. Shortly thereafter, police found him in possession of a box of cocaine buried under a neighbor’s back porch. Wershe ditched the 8 kilos of coke after a post-stop scuffle with the arresting officers that also involved his father and pregnant older sister.

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