Whiteboy Ricks buried Millions ?

[Downriviera]

All these urban agriculture groups are just a front. They are really just digging for White boy Rick's buried millions.

[bartock]

All these urban agriculture groups are just a front. They are really just digging for White boy Rick's buried millions.

...and now we know the REAL reason why Bing wants to "right-size" the City. It's all coming together.

[leland_palmer]

This turned up on wiki answers

Friday, March 25, 2005

Inmate charged in theft ring

Detroit drug dealer from prison helped steal hundreds of vehicles in Florida, authorities say.

By David Shepardson / The Detroit News

DETROIT -- An imprisoned Detroit drug dealer was an active participant in a group that stole $8 million worth of vehicles in south Florida while he was behind bars, Florida authorities said Thursday.

Richard Wershe Jr., who as a teenage drug dealer during the 1980s in Detroit was widely known as White Boy Rick, was charged by state authorities in Florida with being part of a network that stole hundreds of vehicles.

He is serving a life term following his arrest and conviction on drug trafficking charges in 1988 at age 17.

Florida Attorney General Charlie Crist said the arrests of six people -- including Wershe -- capped a probe called "Operation Road Runner."

Three Miami men were charged, along with a Virginia man and another man held in a federal prison, Lorenzo Nichols Jr., with stealing more than 250 vehicles and then selling them with altered vehicle identification numbers.

About 120 of the vehicles, worth $3.5 million, have been recovered.

Wershe and Nichols are accused of using attorney-client telephone lines within the federal prisons, which by law cannot be monitored by prison authorities without a federal court order.

They used the phones "as a point of transfer for three-way calls to further their criminal enterprise," Crist said in a statement.

Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy praised the arrests.

"This case shows the collaborative efforts between law enforcement can produce impressive results," Worthy said in a statement. "We must be vigilant in attacking crime that occurs inside and outside of prison walls."

County prosecutors fought to keep Wershe in the federal prison, where he is being held, during a 2003 at a parole hearing.

In 1991, he was moved to a federal prison in Marquette after he began cooperating with federal agents.

Wershe also was the key to one of the FBI's most significant local police drug corruption cases in which nearly a dozen police officers, including three on then-Detroit Police Chief William Hart's staff, were convicted in 1992, agents told The Detroit News in 2003.

Wershe's cooperation continued in prison. He was instrumental in preventing a homicide in a murder-for-hire plot, and in 1995 provided information about another plot by one organized crime group planning the murder of another nationally known crime figure, agents said.

In 2003 parole hearing, his friend, musician Kid Rock, an FBI agent and two retired FBI agents asked the state parole board to release Wershe.

The FBI agents cited Wershe's extensive help in prosecuting some of Detroit's most vicious drug gangs and a Detroit police corruption case.

It was opposed by Detroit police and federal Drug Enforcement Administration agents who blamed Wershe for some of the city's problems with crime today.

Wershe was 17 when he was arrested in 1988 for possession with intent to deliver about 1.5 pounds of cocaine. He was sentenced to life in prison without parole.

A change in the state's drug-sentencing law in late 2004 left Wershe, now 35, eligible for parole. The parole board unanimously rejected the request. He can reapply in 2007.

[Gistok]

All these urban agriculture groups are just a front. They are really just digging for White boy Rick's buried millions.

LMAO.... we'll have to keep a close eye on how much BLING Cub wears in the future...