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.

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

Heads up: there’s a new “sheriff” in town. But she’s no rookie. She is U.S. Attorney Leah Foley and she is doing the job that ...

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

Tompkins joined the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Department in 2002 and was appointed to serve as sheriff by former Gov. Deval Patrick in 2013. He was elected in 2014 and re-elected in 2016 and 2022.

In the wake of the recent dustup between Boston and Revere over a plan to relocate homeless people in the Mass. and Cass area to a Revere hotel, Suffolk County Sheriff Steve Tompkins saw a problem ...