A North Pole man accused of fatally shooting two people at a drug-rehabilitation facility near Delta Junction last month is scheduled to be arraigned on murder charges next week.
In a brief proceeding Tuesday at the Rabinowitz Courthouse in Fairbanks, Magistrate Judge Risa Leonard affirmed that 33-year-old Daniel P. Serkov has been indicted for the Jan. 20 murder of two men at the Alaska Rehabilitation Center. The judge said he’ll face arraignment on two counts of first-degree murder in a preliminary hearing next week.
“Arraignment is set for February 8th at 1:30 in courtroom 404,” she said.
Superior Court Judge Thomas Temple will preside over the hearing. During the proceeding, Serkov may enter a plea on the two counts of first-degree murder related to the shooting deaths of the two Delta Junction-area residents at the-rehab facility just north of town.
Alaska State Troopers identified the two victims as 44-year-old Andrey Dorozhin and 35-year-old Dmitriy Sergiyenko.
Serkov told an investigator that he checked-in to the facility a day before the shooting to deal with what he said was his chronic drug problem.
Troopers arrested Serkov on the afternoon of Jan. 20, after he tried to turn himself in for possessing a weapon in violation of the conditions of his release for an earlier, unrelated assault charge.
Serkov initially told police that he used the gun to kill what he said was an aggressive dog at the rehab facility. He later admitted to also killing the two men, after they threatened him to get him to surrender some prescription drugs and cigarettes he was carrying.
He’s now being held at the Fairbanks Correctional Center on $2 million bail. If convicted, Sarkov faces up to 99 years in prison for each of the murder charges.
