In the wake of the Suffolk County sheriff’s arrest on extortion charges, Governor Maura Healey reportedly declined to call for her fellow Democrat’s resignation.

Sheriff Steven Tompkins was arrested Friday in Florida after a federal grand jury indicted him on two counts of extortion under color of official right. He’s accused of extorting $50,000 from an executive with an unnamed national cannabis retailer that was seeking to open a dispensary in Boston.

Healey said Monday that she hadn’t “gotten all the information” about Tompkins’s arrest and indictment, according to The Boston Globe . As attorney general, she endorsed Tompkins for the sheriff’s role in 2022.

“The allegations are certainly serious, and no one in elected positions should ever use or abuse their power in an unlaw

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