Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The sheriff of Suffolk County is facing federal charges after he was accused of extorting a cannabis company executive in a scheme ...

A Massachusetts sheriff was arrested by the FBI in Florida on Friday morning on charges of extortion involving a Boston-based cannabis company, federal officials said. Suffolk County Sheriff Steven W.

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 Tompkins has asked to have his extortion charges dismissed, denying any wrongdoing and arguing that even if the allegations were true, they are insufficient to support ...