Student sues Ford claiming smugglers stole key codes to plant pot

Life along the border with Mexico and the United States carries a special set of hazards. Take for an extreme example people who need to cross the bridges between Juarez and El Paso on a daily basis — and have been targeted by drug gangs who break into their cars, plant drugs and then have them retrieved on the other side, all without the owners knowledge.

After being snared in one such scheme that nearly put him in federal prison, one Texas resident has sued Ford, claiming the automaker made it all too easy for unscrupulous locksmiths to duplicate his keys, as they did with at least three other people to haul some 500 lbs. of pot across the border.