Los Ángeles Azules robbed at fake security checkpoint on tour in Mexico, music group says

Prominent Mexican band robbed of equipment at fake security checkpoint

A famous cumbia band says it was robbed of instruments and equipment at a fake security checkpoint on a Mexican highway.   Los Ángeles Azules posted to their social media pages that, on May 9, a bus transporting the band’s instruments and audio equipment was stopped at a fake security checkpoint while on their way back from a performance in Tabasco.  The checkpoint was set up at kilometer marker 61 on the Autopista México-Puebla, a major arteria…

Los Ángeles Azules robbed at fake security checkpoint on tour in Mexico, music group says

Popular international music group Los Ángeles Azules fell victim to a fake security checkpoint on tour, just days after playing the L.A. County Fair.

The popular group of cumbia Los Angeles Azules was the victim of crime. In a statement, the natives of Mexico City announced that their instruments and audio equipment were stolen when they returned from a presentation in Tabasco. With the slogan “from Iztapalapa for the world”, Los Angeles Azules have become one of the most recognized musical groups in the country and abroad, especially within the tropical music movement. Although they have bee…

Mexico City.- Los Angeles Azules reported the theft of their audio equipment and instruments in a false arrest on the Mexico-Puebla Highway. "We want to report that on Friday, May 9, when returning from our show in Tabasco, the truck that was transporting our instruments and audio equipment was assaulted by a false arrest at km 61 of the Mexico-Puebla Highway (direction CDMX)," they shared. "17 years old" interpreters shared that they are curren…

The president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, ordered an urgent investigation after the violent assault suffered by Los Angeles Azules, one of the most emblematic groups in the Mexican cumbia, with more than 18 million monthly listeners in Spotify. The group, originally from Iztapalapa, Mexico City, reported that on May 9, their sound equipment was intercepted and stolen on the Mexico-Puebla road, at the height of the municipality of San Martín Te…

Jimena CampuzanoThe sound equipment from Los Angeles Azules that was stolen from them during a false arrest on the Mexico-Puebla highway was recovered five days after the robbery was registered, confirmed the local authorities. The robbery occurred on May 9 at kilometer 61 of the Mexico-Puebla highway, at the height of Ixtapaluca, State of Mexico, where the van carrying the equipment and instruments was intercepted in a false arrest. The robbers…