Orso Ivan "El Cholo Ivan" Gastelum Cruz was a Sinaloa Cartel lieutenant who was known as El Chapo's top assassin during the Mexican Drug War. He was captured alongside his boss in a Mexican Navy raid on Los Mochis on 8 January 2016.
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Orso Ivan Gastelum Cruz was a longtime lieutenant of Sinaloa Cartel boss Joaquin Guzman Loera ("El Chapo"), and he was made the chief of all of the Sinaloa Cartel's hitmen. En 2003 nace su primogénita “Paulina Gastélum” se desconoce más información de. He was first arrested in 2005 for the possession of ten firearms, but he was released by court order. In 2008, "El Cholo Ivan" was captured after an armed confrontation with soldiers, only to escape amid a prison party on 9 August 2009. In 2010, 2014, and 2015, government attempts to capture him resulted in nothing more than firefights, and, in 2015, he and Ivan Archivaldo Guzman greeted El Chapo on his successful escape from prison; Ivan was grateful to El Chapo for making him the turf boss of Guamuchil. However, both he and El Chapo were captured by the Mexican Navy at Los Mochis, Sinaloa on 8 January 2016, and, while El Chapo was extradited to a maximum-security prison in the United States, Ivan continued to influence his former turf, sending Christmas presents to disadvantaged families in the Sinaloa municipalities of Salvador Alvarado and Mocorito in December 2018.