Along with the Sinaloa cartel leader Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, the Mexican Navy also arrested Saturday at his main collaborator, Orso Iván Gastelum Cruz, alias "El Cholo Ivan", head of the same cartel hitmen, reports the Univision channel .
Orso Gastelum Ivan Cruz was identified as the head of the Sinaloa cartel for the north, and allegedly controlled municipalities Mocorito and Salvador Alvarado.
He escaped from prison disguised as a woman that left at least six prostitutes in his cell.
This guy is the man next to Guzman Loera in the first images released after his capture.
Like the Mexican drug lord himself, "El Cholo" Ivan has a long criminal history in Mexico and twice escaped from prison.
First he escaped from prison in Culiacan in August 2009. There had control of the prison, where often organized parties.
He escaped from the prison disguised as a lady leaving at least six prostitutes in his cell. Years later he fled after being caught in an operation carried out on March 1, 2015 in the city of Guamuchil, Sinaloa.
Lately it was busy coping with rival Beltran Leyva cartel, preventing his henchmen will come to Culiacan, the capital of Sinaloa state.