Steven Tompkins, the Sheriff of Suffolk County, Massachusetts, since 2013, has been arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation on Friday morning, the US Attorney's Office in Boston announced. He ...

Suffolk County Sheriff Steven Tompkins on Friday filed a motion to dismiss the government's extortion charges against him. Tompkins in the filing denied that he engaged in schemes to extort a cannabis ...

SUFFOLK COUNTY, Massachusetts (WBZ) — 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 ...

The Suffolk County Sheriff’s Department spent tens of thousands of public dollars on hotel, travel, and food expenses during the last fiscal year, including junkets to New Orleans, Las Vegas, ...

BOSTON, MA — Suffolk County Sheriff Steven Tompkins was arrested in Florida on federal extortion charges, the FBI said. Tompkins was taken into custody Friday morning in Fort Lauderdale, according to ...

RIVERHEAD, N.Y. (PIX11) — A child from Hauppauge got a once-in-a-lifetime experience at the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Office on Tuesday. 12-year-old Wyatt Houppert was sworn in as an Honorary Sheriff ...

The office that has been held by Sheriff Steven Tompkins for the past dozen years may be low profile, but it is not unimportant. The sheriff is “mandated to enforce the laws of the Commonwealth and to ...

Residents, advocates and business leaders shared mixed views on the federal charges against Suffolk County Sheriff Steve Tompkins, ranging from bewilderment at the alleged corruption to doubts on the ...

A 12-year-old New York boy who has kidney failure was sworn in as an honorary sheriff this week. Suffolk County Sheriff Errol D. Toulon Jr. oversaw the swearing-in ceremony of Wyatt Houppert on ...