On February 24, Armored Republic, a Phoenix, Arizona body armor manufacturer company, made its first international trade show ...

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, 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, ...

CLEVELAND (WJW) — Federal authorities have charged a Stow man with smuggling body armor plates made in China, then selling them to law enforcement agencies as American-made goods. Vall Iliev ...

The plates were concealed in pre-packaged boxes ... has published performance standards for ballistic-resistant police body armor for more than 50 years. It utilizes a standard process by which ...

Washington port of entry last May when they discovered a Canadian-registered truck loaded with ballistic body armor plates marked with the origin of the People's Republic of China, a tactic known ...

The NIJ is an agency within the U.S. Department of Justice that has set the federally-recognized performance standards for ballistic-resistant police ... manufactured body armor plates at Vallmar ...