Sheriff Steven Tompkins is accused of using his position to extort a cannabis company for discounted shares of its stock ...

Suffolk County Sheriff Steven Tompkins is accused of extorting a cannabis company executive. He was arrested in Florida ...

A Boston-area sheriff could soon face 20 years in prison after being indicted on federal charges that alleged he extorted an area cannabis dispensary.

Any elected official sentenced to state or federal prison time is deemed to have vacated their seat, according to state law.

Suffolk County Sheriff Steven W. Tompkins was arrested this morning in Florida on federal charges that he extorted a Boston ...

Tompkins got his start the way most future jailbird Democrat sheriffs get their start. He was another Democrat hack pol’s ...

Steven Tompkins’s indictment, and subsequent arrest Friday in Florida, quickly sent reverberations through Boston and ...

Suffolk County Sheriff Steven Tompkins of Boston was taken into custody in Florida in connection with extortion charges that ...

A sheriff in one of Massachusetts' largest counties has been charged with allegedly pressuring a Boston-based cannabis firm ...

Suffolk County Sheriff Steven Tompkins was arrested Friday following an indictment by a federal grand jury on two counts of ...

Federal prosecutors indicted Suffolk County Sheriff Steven Tompkins on extortion charges Friday, alleging he pressured a ...