Commissioner of Police Allister Guevarro has dismissed criticism over the lack of arrests in the massive $171 million "Colombian creepy" marijuana drug bust in the Caroni Swamp on December 11. In a media release on December 11, the police credited the recently installed US military-grade radar in Tobago for assisting in the bust.

Guevarro revealed the police seized a further 600 kilos of marijuana on South Central Road on December 11, bringing the total from the two busts to 2.2 tonnes. No one was arrested in either incidents.

At the launch of a Municipal Police Post in Port of Spain on December 12, Guevarro said given the resources at his disposal, he would not "leave my officers in the bush for two and three nights to get mosquito bite and dengue."