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Within hours, Floyd was listed as an escapee.
Floyd is now wanted as an accomplice in the shooting of a Philadelphia policeman Saturday afternoon.
Susan McNaughton, spokeswoman for the state Department of Corrections, said the staff at the halfway house earlier had found Floyd in possession of a cell phone - a banned item for inmates who conceivably might use them for drug deals.
"He must have been worried he'd be sent back to prison," McNaughton said.
Floyd twice had been confined to Pennsylvania prisons after convictions for robberies in Lackawanna County, where Scranton is located, state records show.
He served the full five years of a one- to five-year sentenced imposed in 1995.
He re-entered the prison system on May 17, 2002 after the second conviction, this time on a sentence of 7 1/2 to 15 years.
McNaughton said he was released to a counseling center - the state's term for a halfway house - in July 2007. But he was quickly hauled back into prison after some sort of violation of the terms of his release.
From the state prison at Mahanoy City in Schuylkill County, he was sent to a halfway house at Wernersville on Aug. 2 of last year. From there he was transferred to the Reading facility, called the ADAPPT Treatment Services.
The Inquirer yesterday was granted a tour of the center, which occupies six buildings opening onto the Walnut Street sidewalk in downtown Reading.
The center houses 159 men and women, who are in transition from the full confinement of a state prison to being on their own. Inmates typically have to get a job or go to school. The more freedom they show they can handle, the more they earn. Some long-term residents can sign themselves out until 11 at night.
The room that Floyd occupied was on the upper floor of the facility's group home. He slept on a steel-frame bed with a thin mattress, covered by a light, baby-blue blanket. Several other inmates shared two adjoined rooms, drab but clean, with a shower room off to the side.
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