By Gina Tabonares
Variety News Staff

MURDER suspect Alvin Nash Quinata, 23, is being required by the District Court of Guam to provide handwriting samples which will be used to determine whether he’s the one who issued 83 checks with insufficient funds.
Quinata, a main suspect in the murder of Un Chong Kim, is also facing criminal charges in the federal court after he stole some $52,000 in cash and merchandise from the U.S. Navy Exchange using checks that had insufficient funds.
In an order last Thursday, U.S. Magistrate Judge Joaquin Manibusan Jr. granted the motion of the U.S. Attorney’s Office requiring Quinata to submit samples of his handwriting.
The defense did not object to the federal prosecutors’ motion.
The handwriting exemplars in names and numbers will be requested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation agent and will be used as a standard of comparison in determining whether Quinata is the author of the checks in question.
Quinata’s federal court trial was scheduled for April 11, 2007.
He is now in jail after he was indicted on aggravated murder charges in connection with the death of Kim, his former employer, whose body was found on Jan. 18, 2007 in a jungle area near the Sella Bay Lookout Park in Umatac.