Mar 9, 2019 · Assistant DA Matthew Sears moved for the dismissal of charges against Ilya Vett, 47, after investigators determined that the gun, when completed, could not be made operable.

Mar 8, 2019 · Longtime stage worker Ilya Vett, 48, who worked for Disney productions for nearly 17 years, was fired from his job as a result of the arrest over the .44 Magnum and has all but been blacklisted...

Sep 25, 2018 · NEW YORK (AP) — A former puppet specialist with the Broadway musical “The Lion King” is accused of printing a 3-D gun in the theater’s prop room. Ilya Vett was arrested last week on a misdemeanor charge. A criminal complaint says a police officer observed a 3-D printer producing a “hard black plastic object” shaped like a revolver.

Sep 24, 2018 · Vett has been charged with attempted criminal possession of a firearm. A puppet technician for the long-running musical The Lion King was arrested after police found him allegedly...

Sep 24, 2018 · Ilya Vett, a puppet technician for Broadway’s “The Lion King,” has been arrested after he was allegedly found 3D-printing a revolver in a theater’s prop room. Security at the Minskoff...

Sep 24, 2018 · Ilya Vett, a puppet technician for Broadway’s “The Lion King,” has been arrested after he was allegedly found 3D-printing a revolver in a theater’s prop room. Security at the Minskoff...

Nov 7, 2018 · Ilya Vett, 47, appeared briefly in Manhattan Criminal Court on one count of attempted criminal possession of a firearm. His lawyer, Mark Bederow, said outside the courtroom his client was...

Sep 24, 2018 · The man, Ilya Vett, has been charged with attempted criminal possession of a firearm, a misdemeanor.

Sep 24, 2018 · Ilya Vett, 47, was reportedly losing his job and was collecting his things with security present when the printer and the unfinished gun were discovered. According to the police report, Vett said that his workshop was too dusty so he brought the 3-D printer to work to print the gun as a gift to his brother.

Sep 23, 2018 · Things weren’t very Hakuna Matata at Broadway’s iconic “The Lion King” on Friday afternoon, when cops stormed the theater to arrest a props worker for allegedly trying to make a gun with a 3D...