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'White Boy Rick' now set to be released from Florida prison in November 2020

Original date was in April 2021
Posted at 2:31 PM, Dec 27, 2018
and last updated 2018-12-27 20:26:26-05

(WXYZ) — Richard Wershe Jr., otherwise known as "White Boy Rick," will now be released from Florida prison on Nov. 25, 2020.

Previously, court records indicated he would be released on Christmas Day in 2020. Before that, he was set to be released on April 20, 2021.

His story gained national attention in the 1980s — convicted of Possession with Intent to Deliver Over 650 Grams of Cocaine, Wershe was sentenced to life in prison when he was still a teenager. It later became public knowledge that Wershe began trafficking drugs after working for the FBI as an informant.