By Gina Tabonares
Variety News Staff

ALVIN Nash Quinata, 23, yesterday pleaded not guilty to an enhanced grand jury indictment of aggravated murder filed against him in connection with the death of his former employer, Un Chong Kim.
Kim’s body was found on Jan. 18, 2007 in a jungle area near the Sella Bay Lookout Park in Umatac. The cause of her death was blunt trauma to the head, and stab wounds to the neck and chest.
Quinata, who used to work at the Black Hole Nightclub in Maite owned by Kim, was arrested on the same day his former employer was found dead.
After a grand jury returned a true bill of aggravated murder with special allegations of possession and use of deadly weapons, Quinata was arraigned in the courtroom of Judge Alberto Lamorena.
Quinata allegedly used a knife and rock in murdering Kim.
Through his lawyer, Howard Trapp, Quinata asked for a speedy trial, asked for a jury trial of 12, and a copy of discovery.
The $1 million recommended bail by Deputy Attorney General Basil O’Mallan for Quinata’s temporary release remained the same as his lawyer opted to set another day for bail hearing.
Quinata was ordered to return to court for a criminal trial date setting on Feb. 5 at 10 a.m. and his case has been assigned to Judge Steven Unpingco.
Kim was reported missing on Jan. 17, 2007 after she did not return having said she would go shopping.
An employee of the club told investigators that Kim informed her that she was in Agat to meet Quinata because the former employee owed her a substantial amount of money.
Kim’s daughter also told police that she remembered her mother having arguments on the telephone with a male individual she only knew as Alvin prior to her mother’s disappearance.
After Kim’s body was discovered in Umatac, her burnt vehicle, a Ford Ranger pickup truck, was located approximately 300 yards from the Vietnam Heroes Memorial Park which is about 100 yards from a water tank along Route 2 where witnesses saw Quinata on the same day.
An investigation also showed that Kim made several phone calls to Quinata’s home telephone number on Jan. 17 and the victim received an incoming call from a phone located at the Circle K 76 gas station in Aniqua.
A review of the station’s surveillance video revealed that Quinata had made a phone call from that phone at a time that corresponded with the phone call on Kim’s cell phone.
Several witnesses also saw Quinata walking along Route 2 in the vicinity of the park where the burnt vehicle of Kim was found.
A neighbor of Quinata informed police that the defendant had approached him and said he needed a ride to the police station because he beat up his boss and he needed the friend to tell police that he was at his mother’s work.