State police are searching for an inmate who escaped from a halfway house in Brooklyn on Wednesday evening.
Police said Tyquan Turner, 21, was sentenced to four years in prison on March 30, 2011 for having weapons in a motor vehicle.
He had been staying at Brooklyn Bridge Halfway House, at 76 Hartford Road, a community residency program, and escaped around 7 p.m. on Wednesday.
Turner, who was not authorized to leave the premises was seen during a head count at 6:40 p.m. He was reported missing when he did not show up for a mandatory meeting and could not be immediately located.
