Two accused of kidnapping pageant contestant

By Curtis Lum
Advertiser Staff Writer

An O'ahu grand jury yesterday indicted two men on charges they kidnapped a Costa Rican contestant in the Miss Hawaiian Tropic Pageant in April and tried to force her to take Ecstacy.

Enrico Castillo-Jimenez, 22, of Hale'iwa, and Clinton Moncata, 34, of Kailua, were charged with kidnapping and drug counts. They were arrested April 30. Moncata was released after posting $100,000 bail. Castillo-Jimenez remains in custody, unable to post $125,000 in bail.

According to a police affidavit:

The two men gave the young woman, a 21-year-old native of Costa Rica, a ride to a Pupukea supermarket to save her taxi fare. The woman got into a pickup truck driven by Moncata. During the ride, she said Castillo-Jimenez took out a plastic bag of pills and another bag of white powder.

The woman said that when she refused to take a pill, Castillo-Jimenez grabbed her arm and tried to force her to swallow it. The woman said she tricked the men into to letting her out of the truck by telling them she had to throw up.

She fled and called police. Moncata and Castillo-Jimenez were arrested about three hours later at the Turtle Bay Resort hotel.

Police also recovered the pills, which the grand jury indictment identified as Ecstacy, also known as MDMA.

Correction: Clinton Moncata lives in Kailua. Enrico Castillo-Jimenez lives in Hale'iwa. Information in a previous version of this story was incorrect.