According to court documents, Mel Steele, a former member of the gang unit, is scheduled to plead guilty on Dec. 1 to a charge of lying to the FBI during a federal investigation.

An ex-Boston police officer has been sentenced to one year of probation and fined $2,000 fine for lying to federal agents investigating a street gang whose membership included his childhood friend.

Mel Steele said at his sentencing in U.S. District Court on Thursday that the case has "destroyed" him. Prosecutors say Steele, while a member of the department's gang unit, ...

Former Boston gang cop Mel Steele has been given probation and slapped with a $2,000 fine for lying to the FBI in an investigation related to local gangs. Steele, 36, pleaded guilty last fall to ...

Mel Steele stood before a federal judge Thursday and said he had attained his dream of becoming a Boston police gang officer, only to ruin it by providing information to a boyhood friend who was ...

Mel Steele, 36, who recently resigned as a Boston police officer, is charged with a single count of making false statements to the FBI during the course of a federal investigation.

Mel Steele, 36, quit last week amid a joint Boston Police Department Anti-Corruption Unit and FBI investigation, Boston Police said last night.

A former Boston police officer who was assigned to the gang unit has been charged with lying to the FBI about passing confidential information to a gang associate.Mel Steele, a former member of ...

A former Boston police officer assigned to a Youth Violence Strike Force was charged in federal court Thursday with making false statements to an FBI agent investigating a violent street gang in ...

In January 2010, Smigielski and Officer Mel Steele met Brown and Lamar Axell, another reported gang member, at the bar Daisy Buchanan's in downtown Boston, according to federal court records.