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, ...

[Watch in the player above: Fake body armor was sold to Akron Police Department’s SWAT team.] CLEVELAND (WJW) — Federal authorities have charged a Stow man with smuggling body armor plates ...

CLEVELAND — A Stow businessman has been hit with federal charges for allegedly smuggling body armor from China and making fake labels to pass the armor off as American-made, government-certified ...

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.

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 ...