Federal prosecutors say the 67-year-old Boston official pressured a cannabis company for pre-IPO stock shares, then demanded ...

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

Who exactly can remove Suffolk County Sheriff Steve Tompkins or place him on suspension while he faces federal corruption ...

Tompkins' image took a big hit last week when FBI agents arrested him in Florida and federal prosecutors charged him with ...

A federal judge rescheduled an initial appearance and arraignment for Suffolk County Sheriff Steve Tompkins from Wednesday to Thursday, or nearly two weeks after he was arrested in Florida on ...

Tompkins, who has held the sheriff’s seat for more than a decade, was arrested in Florida last week with federal prosecutors ...

Steve Tompkins is, at the moment, a law enforcement official on the wrong side of the law. The longtime Suffolk County ...

Massachusetts Sheriff Steven Tompkins, a key Democratic player, faces federal corruption charges over a cannabis extortion ...

One possible explanation for this silence is that the big names in Massachusetts politics firmly believe in the presumption ...

Prosecutors allege that the sheriff used his position to elbow his way into the marijuana executive's nascent pot firm.

Suffolk County Sheriff Steve Tompkins, who has held his position since 2013, was taken into custody Friday morning.

"These are serious allegations, but until I have more information, I’m not going to comment on it," Gov. Maura Healey said.