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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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