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 ...

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

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

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

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 resigned from the Roxbury Community College Board of Trustees, where he serves as chair ...

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

Suffolk County Sheriff Steven Tompkins has been charged with extortion for his alleged dealings with a Boston-based cannabis ...

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

Suffolk County Sheriff Steven Tompkins in 2016. He was taken into custody Friday morning in Florida for a scheduled court ...

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 ...