[#item_full_content] The Suffolk County sheriff was charged on Aug. 8 with allegedly pressuring a Boston-based cannabis firm to sell him stock in the company. Sheriff Steven Tompkins, 67, who oversees about 1,000 employees in the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Department, is facing two counts of extortion. He was taken into federal custody in Florida and had his first appearance there. He will appear later in U.S. District Court in Boston. No one from the sheriff’s department could be reached for comment, and an attorney for Tompkins did not respond to a request for comment. According to the court documents, Tompkins first pressured 
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