Suffolk County Sheriff Steve Tompkins is scheduled to appear in court next week for an arraignment after he was arrested ...

Suffolk County Sheriff Steve Tompkins resigned from the Roxbury Community College Board of Trustees, where he serves as chair ...

The Suffolk County Sheriff’s Department spent tens of thousands of public dollars on hotel, travel, and food expenses during ...

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

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

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

Suffolk County Sheriff Steven Tompkins was arrested in Florida after a federal grand jury indicted him on charges of extorting $50,000 from a cannabis company seeking to open in Massachusetts. He was ...

Tompkins got his start the way most future jailbird Democrat sheriffs get their start. He was another Democrat hack pol’s driver, appointed to fill a vacancy. And now, just like clockwork, he’s ...

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

In Massachusetts, the perp walk only occurs outside the federal courthouse, because another tradition in the Commonwealth is that the local prosecutors will never, ever, under any circumstances arrest ...

Suffolk County Sheriff Steven Tompkins, who faces a federal extortion indictment, has resigned his post on the Board of ...

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