Since starting his second full term in January 2023, Tompkins has relied heavily on donations from those who work for him.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

BOSTON - Suffolk County Sheriff Steve Tompkins has paid a $12,300 fine for violating Massachusetts' conflict of interest law, the State Ethics Commission announced Monday.

A sheriff in one of Massachusetts' largest counties has been charged with allegedly pressuring a Boston-based cannabis firm ...

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.