An accused serial rapist who police say assaulted at least five women pleaded not guilty to all the charges against him at his arraignment Monday.

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Richard Dorsey, 43, is charged with six counts of first-degree sexual assault, one count of second-degree assault and five counts of third-degree assault. Anchorage police initially charged Dorsey with a count of attempted murder, but a grand jury indictment handed up last week reduced that to a count of third-degree assault, according to state Superior Court records.

Dorsey is accused of picking up and assaulting women who were walking along the road in a series of attacks dating back at least to 2001.

Dorsey has already been convicted of second-degree sexual assault after he stuck his hand up a woman's skirt in the Carrs Quality Center store on Huffman Road in July 2006.

While he was on trial in that case, police snatched a water cup Dorsey had used in court and matched DNA evidence from it to an unsolved 2002 rape.

Dorsey has not yet been sentenced in the Carrs assault. His trial on the new charges is set to begin Feb. 8.

Find James Halpin online at adn.com/contact/jhalpin or call 257-4589.

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