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

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

Suffolk County Sheriff Steve Tompkins resigned from the Roxbury Community College Board of Trustees, where he serves as chair, days after he was arrested in Florida on charges that he extorted a ...

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

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 ...

The office that has been held by Sheriff Steven Tompkins for the past dozen years may be low profile, but it is not ...

Suffolk County Sheriff Steve Tompkins is scheduled to appear in court next week for an arraignment after he was arrested earlier this month in Florida on charges that he extorted an executive at a ...

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

Healey said Tompkins “made the right decision by stepping down," but has yet to call for his resignation from the Suffolk ...

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

Sheriff Steven W. Tompkins is facing an extortion charge after he allegedly demanded a refund from an executive of a cannabis ...

Gov. Maura Healey is facing pressure from her Republican rivals to call for the resignation of Suffolk County Sheriff Steven ...