Steve Tompkins was just trying to put the “high” back in “High Sheriff of Suffolk County.”

For that is indeed the erstwhile marijuana mogul’s official job title, at least for now.

He needed cash, apparently, because last year the High Sheriff “only” pocketed $215,430, including $22,626.15 in what the state comptroller describes as “leave buy back.”

Who knew an elected politician could claim “leave buy back?” But this is Massachusetts.

Tompkins got his start the way most future jailbird Democrat sheriffs get their start. He was another hack pol’s driver, appointed by a Democrat governor, in this case Deval Patrick, to fill a vacancy.

And now, just like clockwork, he’s been indicted.

Just like former High Sheriff of Middlesex, “Honest” John McGonigle, and Essex County sheriff Charles “

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