Two Accused of Using Store for Bookmaking Operation
Two Anaheim men were arrested Wednesday on suspicion of using a janitorial supply store as a front for a bookmaking operation, police said.
Jeffrey Edward Aldstadt, 36, and Michael Knute Anderson, 35, are suspected of operating a betting ring out of the Beach Cities Janitorial Supply store in the 3900 block of Cerritos Avenue in Los Alamitos, Officer Scott A. Foster said.
Cypress police began investigating a year ago after someone told them about a suspicious business in Los Alamitos.
Detectives served search warrants Wednesday at the business and the men’s homes. They seized “payrolls, wager slips and miscellaneous evidence indicating they were running a bookmaking operation,” Foster said.
When Aldstadt was arrested at Los Alamitos Race Course, he was carrying $20,000, police said. Anderson was arrested at his home, where $3,000 in cash was seized. Both men were booked at the city jail on suspicion of bookmaking and conspiracy, Foster said.
They were transferred to the Orange County Jail, and bail was set at $25,000 each, Foster said.
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