Vall Iliev, 69, of Stow, Ohio, has been charged in a three-count information with smuggling foreign-made body armor and then selling it to law enforcement agencies and others, as legitimate, ...

A Stow businessman who admitted to selling fake body armor to police has agreed to pay back $32.4 million in restitution. Vall Iliev, the owner of Shotstop Ballistics, faces a sentencing range of five ...

Vall Iliev, 69, is accused of working with a Chinese broker company to find ... performance standards for ballistic-resistant police body armor for more than 50 years. Iliev allegedly instructed ...

Prosecutors say Iliev spent years working with a Chinese broker to find cheaply made body armor, which was shipped to Vallmar Studios. There, employees were told to put made-in-America and testing ...

Ohio— A Stow business owner is accused of selling counterfeit body armor imported from China to more than a dozen law enforcement agencies, including Akron, Rocky River and Columbus police.

Investigators found thousands of Chinese-produced body armor plates at Vallmar and ShotStop, which served as warehouses to receive, but had no means of producing, Level III or Level IV body armor.