ORLANDO, Fla. -- The mother of a 3-year-old Orlando girl was released from jail on Thursday, one day after a bounty hunter and bondsman posted her $500,000 bond.

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Casey Anthony, 22, left the Orange County Jail amid a swarm of reporters a day after celebrity bounty hunter Leonard Padilla, of California, helped post her bond.

Anthony was driven to her parent's Orange County home Thursday morning. The vehicle was seen speeding into the home's garage before the door lowered.

Outside the home, Anthony's mother, Cindy, threatened to spray the media with a hose to remove them from the property.

Casey Anthony's daughter, Caylee, has been missing since mid-June and was reported missing by her mother in mid-July after Casey Anthony's mother, Cindy Anthony called 911.

"They're extremely pleased, this is what we anticipated," Larry Garrison, a spokesman for the Anthony family, said on Wednesday. "We want what's the best for Caylee. We want Caylee found."

A group from a California bail bonds company flew to Florida on Sunday to help Clearwater-based bondsman Albert Estes, who shares the same surety group, post the bond. They said they believed Casey Anthony might be more likely to talk about her daughter's disappearance if she were released from jail.

Casey Anthony was fitted with an ankle bracelet and will be placed on home confinement at her parents' house.

Casey Anthony told detectives that she had not seen her daughter for 31 days and later told investigators that she had been conducting her own investigation into the whereabouts of Caylee.

Casey Anthony told Orange County sheriff’s detectives that she left Caylee with a woman named Zenaida Gonzalez at the Sawgrass Apartments in mid-June.

The apartment where she said she dropped off the girl hadn't been occupied in months, and Casey Anthony gave detectives a bogus employer, manager's name and work telephone number, according to a charging affidavit.

Casey Anthony was arrested and charged with child neglect, filing a false statement and obstructing an investigation.

Bond Posted

A $500,000 bond was posted Wednesday night for Casey Anthony as a national search continues for Caylee.

"(Casey Anthony) will be out (Thursday) unless the county adds more charges," Leonard Padilla said. "She's going to her home with her parents, and hopefully somewhere down the road she’ll decide, 'Hey this is the truth of the matter, this is what happened.'"

Padilla and his nephew, Tony Padilla, traveled to Florida last week to post the $500,000 bond for Casey Anthony.

Padilla said he'd put up his own money to bail her out in an effort to find out what happened to Caylee Anthony.

"There were bondsmen from other companies that didn't want this to happen and they kept injecting themselves into the situation," Padilla said.

"(I want to) get her name and face out there, and hopefully someone between here and Puerto Rico and New York sees the little girl, seizes the reward and they drop her off at the drugstore,” Padilla said. “They can have the reward.”

The process has taken many days because Leonard Padilla had to work in conjunction with a licensed agent in Florida.

Leonard Padilla, who hosts a TV show called "Bounty Hunters" on National Geographic, has been working with Casey Anthony's attorney, Jose Baez.

Padilla told Local 6 News that a special phone line has been added to the home of Casey Anthony's parents, which is needed for an ankle monitoring bracelet.

"We eat in the same room, sleep in the same room. After a while, these people feel better than sitting in a cell looking at the walls, and they will discuss things that they won't discuss with parents or anybody else," Leonard Padilla said.

Earlier, threats against the family if Casey Anthony leaves jail prompted Cindy Anthony to consider the use of a safe house.

"Right here, I don't think is the ideal place for her not because we don't want her in the house and everything, but we may have to hole her up somewhere in a safe house," Cindy Anthony said.

Watch Local 6 News for more on this story.