MANDEVILLE, Manchester — Dave Wilson, the murder suspect in Tuesday’s four-hour stand-off with the security forces here, served prison time in Canada for armed robberies and was reportedly deported at least three times.

According to The Globe and Mail newspaper, Wilson and an accomplice had been twice deported before a February 2003 robbery in Toronto when heavily armed men, wearing bulletproof vests, overpowered guards in an armoured truck making a cash delivery to a bank.

The February 14, 2003 article said the men fled on foot to a video store after their getaway car wouldn’t start, leading to a hostage situation there. An employee reportedly managed to call the police and when the store was surrounded by police, the men gave themselves up.

The Globe and Mail said the Toronto police were outraged that two Jamaicans accused of a violent robbery and hostage-taking had been deported from Canada on several previous occasions.

“I think it’s disgusting. There’s a sieve that allows these guys to run in and out of this country. We were going to call these guys the yo-yo bandits because they’ve been in and out of Canada so often,” the article quoted Sergeant Wilf Townley of the Toronto police hold-up squad as saying.

The article also said the men had a fully loaded 9mm handgun and a fully loaded .223-calibre assault rifle. Police also recovered other firearms, bulletproof vests, balaclavas, and the stolen cash in the store’s basement.

Wilson and his accomplice had both been convicted and imprisoned in the 1990s for armed robberies and, on separate occasions, the two were deported after serving prison terms.

The Jamaica Constabulary Force, in a release on Wednesday, said police are probing the murder of Adrian Bernard, 31, and the subsequent fatal shooting of Wilson, 54.

The police said on Tuesday that Bernard and Wilson had a dispute over the cost of an item.

“It is alleged that during the argument Wilson left and returned with a rifle and opened gunfire at Bernard, who was seated in his motor car. Wilson fled the scene in a blue Honda Accord. The police were summoned, and on their arrivalBernard was seen with gunshot wounds to his right leg and chest. He was assisted to hospital, where he was pronounced dead,” the police statement read in part.

Detectives probing the murder went to Wilson’s apartment on Caledonia Road in Mandeville. There, the authorities said Wilson fired at the security forces from a ground-floor apartment at the front of the complex. Two armoured vehicles and a truck had to be used to breach the premises and remove a grille during the security forces’ entry.

Police gave an updated count on the number of assorted rounds seized to 745 following Tuesday’s incident. Police said an Omni Hybrid multi-calibre rifle with 28 5.56 rounds and a Pietro Beretta 9mm pistol with an affixed magazine containing 17 rounds were found beside Wilson, who was fatally shot.

Members of the police’s Specialised Operations moving towards the Caledonia Road apartment on Tuesday, during the stand-off with ‘Brown Man’. (Kasey Williams)

An undated photo of murder and shooting suspect Dave Wilson, otherwise called Brown Man.