California Couple Sentenced to Prison for Mail Order Drug Trafficking

March 19, 2025 – A federal district judge sentenced a husband and wife to federal prison for working with
a foreign drug trafficking organization to distribute methamphetamine, opioids, and other
controlled drugs purchased by customers from an online pharmacy.
The judge sentenced Vanessa Vanly Kaiser, 50, to six years’ imprisonment and Ronald Robert
Kaiser, 61, to almost four years’ imprisonment after each pled guilty on December 19, 2024,
to conspiring to distribute a controlled substance, including methamphetamine. The Kaisers
are from Sacramento, California.
For about six months in 2023, the scheme operated as follows: Customers throughout the
United States purchased narcotics without prescriptions from an online pharmacy. The
foreign drug trafficking organization provided the Kaisers with drugs which were mailed to the
organization’s customers throughout the United States (including ones in South Florida). The
Kaisers also collected payments on the organization’s behalf. The drugs included Schedule
II opioids and pills (appearing to be Adderall) containing methamphetamine. Over the six
months, the Kaisers possessed or mailed more than 169,000 pills and funneled more
than $500,000 from customers to the foreign drug traffickers using online money transfer
applications and bank accounts. https://www.dea.gov/press-releases/2025/03/19/california-couple-sentenced-prison-for-mail-order-drug-trafficking