Some four hours elapsed before officials at the maximum-security Rhode Island jail realized that James W. Morales had escaped, even though his entire New Year’s Eve getaway was captured on surveillance cameras, according to federal court records released Friday.

A correction officer at the Donald W. Wyatt Detention Facility marked Morales present at his 10:30 p.m. bed check, but then realized Morales, who is facing federal gun trafficking charges, was not in his cell, according to an affidavit by US Deputy Marshal Charles J. Wyant.

Another 30 minutes passed before the officer, identified only as “Officer Spano,’’ notified his superiors that Morales was missing, Wyant wrote.

Officials then reviewed the jail’s surveillance video and discovered the following:

■ At 4:26 p.m., video shows Morales entering the recreation area by himself.

■ At 6:23 p.m., Morales can be seen “standing on a basketball hoop in the recreation area.’’

■ At 6:30 p.m., Morales “was able to access the roof through a hole created in the recreation area roof fence.’’

■ At 6:47 p.m., Morales “is observed coming down the side of the building and running toward the train tracks.’’

A State Police dog tracked Morales down the railroad tracks to a location near Interstate 95. “At this location, prison attire was located,’’ Wyant wrote.

Morales, 35, spent 114 hours on the run until he was captured Thursday in Somerville by a Massachusetts State Police trooper. A law enforcement dragnet had descended on the Cambridge-Somerville area, where Morales was allegedly spotted trying to rob two banks.

On Friday, Morales appeared in US District Court in Providence, where he waived his right to a detention hearing and was ordered held without bail by Magistrate Judge Patricia A. Sullivan.

He faces a charge of escaping from federal authorities, according to the Rhode Island US attorney’s office.

Prosecutors argued that Morales was a flight risk, in light of recent events.

Morales, a former Army Reserve medical logistics specialist, was being held in Rhode Island while awaiting trial for allegedly breaking into a Worcester armory in 2015 and cutting through the ceiling of a weapons vault to steal six assault rifles and 10 semiautomatic pistols. At the time, he was wearing a GPS monitoring bracelet while awaiting trial on child rape charges that originated in Cambridge.

On Thursday, the chairman of the detention center board called the escape “wholly and entirely unacceptable and inexcusable’’ and said the board has instructed Wyatt’s warden to conduct a complete review of the facility, including interviewing every officer and detainee.

John R. Ellement can be reached at ellement @globe.com.