Pekanbaru, Riau, July 29 -- The Narcotics and Illegal Drugs Investigation Unit of the Pekanbaru City Police, Riau Province, has confiscated 19.8 kilograms of methamphetamine from a married couple, identified by their initials as H and K.

"We secured 19.8 kilograms of methamphetamine that the suspects left in the parking lot of SKA Mall in Pekanbaru on Wednesday (July 16, 2025)," head of the Narcotics Investigation Unit of the Pekanbaru Police, Commissioner Bagus Faria, said at a press conference in Pekanbaru on Tuesday.

The couple's modus operandi involved leaving their car with the drugs in the mall parking lot early in the morning, before the mall opened.

"Someone else would later pick up the methamphetamine and the abandoned car" in...