A a worker uproots coca shrubs during a manual eradication campaign of coca fields in Taraza , in the northwester Colombia's state of Antioquia, Tuesday, June,17, 2008.

One of Britain's richest men is on the run from police after apparently escaping from a window at his mansion when officers raided his home.

Allegations that three of his officers used their badges to steal from drug dealers prompted IMPD Chief Michael Spears to announce plans Tuesday to conduct random polygraph tests on all narcotics investigators.

For two decades Diego Murillo was among Colombia's most feared and untouchable drug lords, accused of hundreds of murders as an enforcer for the cocaine cartels and leader of a right-wing paramilitary group.

U.S. authorities said they discovered more than seven tons of marijuana inside a truck that was crossing from Mexico to California.