Introducing Shattered, Season 2 – White Boy Rick

Shattered

WDIV Local 4 | Graham Media Group

True Crime, Society & Culture, News

4.7 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2018

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to Season 2 of Shattered. When he was 14 years-old, Rick Wershe, Jr. became one of the youngest FBI informants in American history. The inside information he provided led to the downfall of some of Detroit's biggest drug dealers. Once the FBI no longer needed Rick, he became a dealer in his own right, only until being busted on a cocaine possession charge when he was 17. Wershe has been in prison ever since. Hosted by WDIV investigative reporter, Kevin Dietz, Shattered: White Boy Rick chronicles Wershe's improbable life story. Along the way, you’ll meet the sister who stood by him, the drug boss who befriended him, the FBI agents who employed him, and even Matthew McConaughey, who plays the part of Rick’s dad in the upcoming movie, White Boy Rick. You can hear the entire story starting September 6th. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	When he was 14 years old, Rick got a job, a really good paying job.
0:05.0	So you were probably making more money than most kids that you knew?
0:10.0	Well, I was making more money than the adults that I knew.
0:13.5	The U.S. government has committed the armed services and more than $200 million a year to the fight
0:18.4	against drugs, but the enemies in this war have more money, the latest latest equipment and millions of our own citizens
0:24.8	supporting them. In 1984 the FBI and Detroit Police Department are
0:32.2	desperate to put some big-time
0:33.8	dealers in prison and to help build their case they pay a friendly observant
0:38.8	teenager to infiltrate one of the city's biggest drug organizations.
0:43.0	When we first made, we couldn't believe why would these African American young teenagers and 20 year olds?
0:49.0	Why would they deal with this kid?
0:51.0	Well, he was very sharp, very smart, very streetwise. with this
0:55.0	season.
0:59.0	season with this is shattered this season you'll hear the story of Rick Worshe Jr.
1:02.0	you might know him as White Boy Rick, an informant turned cocaine dealer.
1:07.0	In 1987 when Worshi was arrested for allegedly possessing 8 kilos of cocaine,
1:12.0	if you ask people about Rick Wicksh,
1:14.8	they don't know Rick Wersh.
1:16.2	But if you say white boy Rick,
1:18.4	people act like they know who I am and they don't know me.
1:30.0	I'm Kevin Deets. In my 25 years as an investigative TV reporter in Detroit, no story has been as surprising, outrageous, and just crazy as Rex.
1:33.0	The word went to the police department.
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