Who exactly can remove Suffolk County Sheriff Steve Tompkins or place him on suspension while he faces federal corruption ...

Suffolk County Sheriff Steve Tompkins is scheduled to appear in court next week for an arraignment after he was arrested ...

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

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

Suffolk County Sheriff Steven W. Tompkins, a ubiquitous, glad-handing Democrat in Boston political circles, was arrested by ...

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

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

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 ...

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

Tompkins got his start the way most future jailbird Democrat sheriffs get their start. He was another Democrat hack pol’s driver, appointed to fill a vacancy. And now, just like clockwork, he’s ...

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

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