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, ...

The metal suits worn by knights during the Middle Ages were originally designed to protect against weapons such as swords.

Vall Iliev's company ShotStop Ballistics LLC was accused of selling bogus armor to the Akron Police Department to outfit its SWAT officers.

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.

Chinese archaeologists have reconstructed 6,000 composite armour scales unearthed from the tomb of Liu He – the deposed ninth emperor of the Han dynasty (206BC - AD220) – in the first ...