The former fugitive charged with ambushing a Pennsylvania state police barracks had a laptop computer and used the Internet while evading hundreds of law enforcement officials, according to court documents released Tuesday.

State police found the laptop and two storage drives inside an abandoned airplane hangar near the spot where Eric Frein was captured Thursday night, according to a search warrant inventory. Frein told authorities he used unprotected Wi-Fi hot spots to connect to the Internet during his 48-day flight, documents said, raising the possibility he knew where police were focusing their search efforts each day.It's not clear how he kept the computer charged. Before his capture, state police had surmised he was breaking into cabins and unoccupied vacation homes for food and shelter.Frein was unarmed when he surrendered to U.S. marshals in an open field near the former Birchwood-Pocono Airpark. He told police a rifle and handgun were inside the hangar, according to an affidavit.The 31-year-old survivalist and expert marksman is charged with opening fire on the Blooming Grove state police barracks Sept. 12, killing one trooper and seriously wounding a second. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty.A state police laboratory has linked DNA found on a dental pick in Frein's bathroom to a water bottle, ammunition pouch, sweat shirt and cigarettes found at a makeshift campsite and in the car Frein is believed to have driven the night police believe he shot and killed Cpl. Bryon Dickson and wounded Trooper Alex Douglass at the Blooming Grove barracks in Pike County.Now, police want to take a mouth swab from Frein to get a sample of his DNA to compare to the pick and other items.Police also found the computer and storage drives along with numerous other items in a vacant airplane hangar at the Birchwood-Pocono Airpark in Pocono Township where Frein is believed to have hidden.They included a 14-page handwritten note in a manila envelope, dated Saturday, Dec. 28, 1996; a Yugoslavian rifle and another rifle and a pistol; ammunition, black under armor shirts and shorts, contact lenses, a gold button-down shirt, Pentax binoculars, gun cleaning equipment, a web harness, blankets, food and cooking utensils, clothing, a Bible, a religious plaque, pages of typed prayers, a weatherband radio, candles, a black notepad with writings, pills and capsules, and shaving kits.Frein has been assigned two public defenders.One of them, Michael Weinstein, is a former Pike County district attorney who has since gone on to a career in civil litigation and criminal defense.Among his current clients is Rockne Newell, who's charged with fatally shooting three people at the Ross Township municipal meeting last year.Frein's other lawyer is Robert Bernathy, Pike County's chief public defender.The lawyers did not return phone messages left by The Associated Press.A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Nov. 12.Frein was prepared for falling temperatures, wearing a thermal shirt, sweater and fleece jacket on the day he was caught, along with military pants, according to documents. He also wore a Timex watch and a silver necklace with a pendant.Check tnonline.comfor updates and the search warrant inventory.