A notorious drug dealer and FBI informant known as “White Boy Rick” will become a free man a little sooner than expected.

Richard Wershe Jr., who became the youngest informant in FBI history after working with federal authorities when he was just 14, is scheduled to be released from a Florida prison on Nov. 25, 2020, or nearly five months earlier than his original release date, the Detroit Free Press reports.

“His original release date was 4/20/2021, but it was recently updated to reflect the amount of gain time accrued during his sentence,” Florida Department of Corrections press secretary Patrick Manderfield wrote in a statement to the newspaper.

Wershe is now being held at a minimum-security unit at Putnam Correctional Institution in Florida, corrections records show. He was originally arrested in 1987 in Detroit with 8 kilos of cocaine and close to $30,000 and was later convicted of possession with intent to deliver more than 650 grams of cocaine. He was then sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole, according to the Free Press.

Wershe went on to become Michigan’s longest-serving nonviolent juvenile offender in state history, serving roughly three decades behind bars, WDIV reports.

The Michigan Parole Board later voted unanimously to release Wershe in July 2017, but he was transferred into the custody of the Florida Department of Corrections in connection with a 2006 conviction for racketeering and conspiracy to commit racketeering.

Wershe told WDIV that he pleaded guilty to the allegations to protect his sister and mother from possibly being charged in connection with a stolen car ring in Florida.

“They said, ‘Listen, this is what we’re going to do,’” Wershe told the station. “’If you don’t take this plea, we are going to arrest your mom and your sister.’ It was a forced plea. I don’t agree I committed the crime that I was convicted of.”

Wershe, a father of three, was ultimately put into a federal witness protection program in a Florida prison after cooperating with FBI agents to uncover corrupt cops while he served time in Michigan, the Free Press reported last year.

Wershe’s story — including how he earned his nickname while living in a predominantly black Detroit neighborhood at the height of the 1980s crack epidemic — has been the subject of several documentaries and a feature film in which actor Matthew McConaughey plays Wershe’s father. It’s the first feature film role for Richie Merritt, who portrays Wershe.

Wershe, meanwhile, has told WDIV he plans to keep his head down until his long-awaited chance at freedom comes again.

“I have to deal with, and whatever it is, that’s what I’m going to do,” he said of the end of his sentence, which had been previously moved to Dec. 25, 2020.

Wershe’s release date might move up even further with continued good behavior behind bars, according to the station.