White Boy 2017 Now the subject of 1980s Detroit street folklore, then 17 year old Richard Wershe, Jr was said to have run a vicious, sophisticated large scale inner city drug operation He was arrested as a teen and sentenced to life without parole for a non violent, juvenile drug offense He remains imprisoned 30 years later Now, journalists, police, federal agents and hit men seek to set the record straight on the urban legend known as White Boy Rick In this case the truth is even stranger than the legend