A man has been charged in a brazen, daylight robbery of property belonging to former NHL star Paul Kariya.

Police say that a suspect stole two championship rings on loan from the retired NHL Hall of Fame player at the Hockey Hall of Fame (HHOF) around 12:30 p.m. on Feb. 11. Kariya was recently inducted into the institution.

Video evidence reportedly shows a man came in through the Spirit of Hockey store, entered a storage closet that opened up the back of a display case and removed the rings. He fled in a rented U-Haul panel van.

After the Hall of Fame heist, police put out images of the suspect wearing a grey sweatsuit asking for a call-out for tips and witnesses, and this reportedly led to the suspect being identified.

The stolen rings, Kariya’s 1993 world junior championship ring and a 1994 world championship ring, have not been recovered.

“We’ve sold World Championship rings for lots of different players and they would definitely be something that would be sought after, that’s for sure. It’s a very important piece of memorabilia,” says Marc Juteau, president and founder of Classic Auctions in Delson, Quebec, which has handled the sales of items for many former NHL players.

While he hesitates to place a value on the rings, as this is “debatable, and many of these items are worth what people are willing to pay for them,” he says the rings are easily worth thousands of dollars.

“Just a caveat here: Paul Kariya is notoriously difficult memoribilia-wise; he doesn’t sign autographs. He’s not accessible. Anything Kariya has some added cachet and carries a premium. For a World Junior Ring, I’d say somewhere between the $5,000-to-$10,000 range,” says Hersh Borenstein, president of Frozen Pond, which specializes in autographed hockey memoribilia, and is located in Concord, Ont. “There’s not a lot rings out there, so they are valuable.”

But the rings would be very difficult to sell, Borenstein says.

“It’s like stolen artwork, because you can’t sell it; you’ll be caught. That’s why memoribilia is not the smartest thing to take,” he said.

At the time, Hockey Hall of Fame spokesperson Kelly Masse said that Kariya said he “understood these things happen.”

Christopher Hall, 37, of Mississauga appeared in court on Friday charged with breaking and entering, possession of property obtained by crime, and failure to comply with probation orders.

Halton Police arrested Hall on unrelated charges related to the theft of $50,000 worth of ski jackets on March 21, and he has been in custody since.

According to a release from Halton Police, on March 19, at 3:30 a.m., a man and woman used a commercial van to steal $50,000 worth of high-end ski jackets from Corbett’s Ski and Snowboards shop. The pair managed to escape before police arrived on the scene.

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Two nights later, Halton police arrived at the Monte Carlo Inn in Oakville in the early hours of the morning for an unrelated investigation. While speaking to another hotel guest, police noticed a man and woman trying to flee through a hotel room window. They were promptly arrested and the man was reportedly found to be wearing one of the stolen jackets. Through the use of a search warrant, Halton Regional Police recovered more of the stolen jackets.

Hall, Alicia Campbell, 37, and Martina Thompson, 36, have all been charged with possession of property from the ski jacket robbery.