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, ...

U.S. law enforcement agencies use ballistic-resistant body armor that complies with standards set by the NIJ, and ShotStop marketed their Level III and Level IV body armor as “Made in Stow, Ohio” and ...

Skutnik said. The products were touted as Level III and Level IV certified by the National Institute of Justice (NIJ), the research, development and evaluation arm of the U.S. Department of Justice.