Man pleads guilty to DUI homicides, faces 60 years in prison
SCRANTON (AP) – A Pennsylvania man has acknowledged causing a 2016 crash that killed five people while he was driving drunk.
Twenty-nine-year-old Gennadiy Manannikov, of Lake Ariel, pleaded guilty in the largely empty Scranton courthouse Thursday. Lackawanna County Judge Margaret Bisignani Moyle asked if Manannikov understood he faced up to 60 years in prison by pleading guilty.
He nodded his head and said yes.
State police charged Manannikov for driving the wrong way on Interstate 81 and colliding head-on with another vehicle. Three of the five victims died at the scene of the crash, with another dying about a week later from his injuries. Manannikov’s passenger also died in the crash.
Manannikov had a blood alcohol content of 0.149 at the time of the wreck. The state’s limit for drivers is 0.08 percent.