El Chapo's right-hand man and cartel's chief of assassins El Cholo Iván will ... trends now
Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán's former right-hand man is expected to be handed over to United States authorities any time now following almost three years of court battles.
Orso 'El Cholo Iván' Gastélum's saw his appeal process come to a halt Tuesday when a State of Mexico circuit court voted unanimously recognize the extradition request.
His team of lawyers had argued from the start that an arrest warrant and extradition arrest petition that was filed by Mexican authorities in March 2020 was filled with administrative inaccuracies.
Gastélum was the security chief for El Chapo and oversaw the Sinaloa Cartel's gang of assassins.
Mexican soldiers escort Orso 'El Cholo Iván' Gastélum (center) in Mexico City on January 9, 2016, a day after he and El Chapo were arrested
Orso 'El Cholo Iván' Gastélum (left) commandeered a squad of assassins in Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán's (right) Sinaloa Cartel
Gastélum has been in custody of Mexican authorities after he and El Chapo were captured on January 8, 2016, after fleeing from security forces following a shootout at the kingpin's safe house in Los Mochis, Sinaloa.
The longtime lieutenant started working in one of the criminal organization's marijuana farms and rose through the ranks until he gained El Chapo's trust to become the kingpin's top enforcer.
Mike Vigil, the former chief of international operations for the Drug Enforcement Administration, once told Univision that Gastélum was 'very powerful, very violent and that is why 'El Chapo' trusts him a lot.'
U.S. authorities revealed how deep he was involved in the Sinaloa Cartel's operation during El Chapo's trial in 2019 when a federal witness told a New York federal court that Gastélum also oversaw drug shipments from Colombia to Honduras and Guatemala via boats and airplanes.
Orso 'El Cholo Iván' Gastélum (left) and Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán (right) sit in the back of a police vehicle after they were arrested by Mexican security forces in Los Mochis, Sinaloa, on January 8, 2016, after they escaped the then-fugitive drug lord's hideout home during a raid. El Cholo Iván oversaw the Sinaloa Cartel's assassins and had his appeal process to stop his extradition rejected by a circuit court Tuesday
María Flores (pictured), a former beauty queen, was shot and killed in November 2012 when she stepped out of a vehicle and fired at soldiers who were attempting to arrest Orso 'El
