Suffolk County Sheriff Steven Tompkins has agreed to pay a $12,300 civil fine for violating the state's conflict of interest law. The Massachusetts Ethics Commission said the violations include ...

Suffolk County Sheriff Steven W. Tompkins was arrested Friday morning in Florida on federal charges that he extorted a Boston cannabis company for pre-IPO stock. Federal prosecutors say he used his ...

Federally indicted Suffolk County Sheriff Steven Tompkins is trying to get evidence tossed from his pot extortion case. Tompkins, 67, who was indicted by a federal grand jury on two counts of ...

Suffolk County Sheriff Steven W. Tompkins pleaded not guilty Thursday to federal extortion charges during his first appearance in court in Massachusetts since he was accused two weeks ago of using his ...

The sheriff stood accused of extortion, and the governor of Massachusetts wanted him out. The year was 1994, and then-Middlesex Sheriff John P. McGonigle was fighting to keep his job in the face of a ...

IN SOUTH BOSTON TONIGHT. SARA ERIKA AND JESSICA, THE SHERIFF DID NOT ANSWER OUR QUESTIONS, INCLUDING WHETHER HE WOULD STEP DOWN FROM HIS POSITION. HIS ATTORNEY SAYS THIS IS A MISTAKE AND THAT HE IS ...

Suffolk County Sheriff Steven Tompkins has been charged with extortion for his alleged dealings with a Boston-based cannabis company. The U.S. Attorney's Office in Boston said FBI agents arrested ...

Suffolk County Sheriff Steven Tompkins is taking a medical leave, nearly three weeks after he was charged with extorting a Boston-based cannabis company. Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey and state ...

Matt Schooley is a digital producer at CBS Boston. He has been a member of the WBZ news team for the last decade. Suffolk County Sheriff Steven Tompkins appeared in a Massachusetts courtroom on ...