Brazilian federal police have arrested Luciano Geraldo Daniel, the man they say is the biggest cocaine supplier in the country, a day after police in Rio De Janeiro stormed two slums in search of Tiago Teixeira, a drug lord who they suspect of ordering the killings of up to 18 people whose bodies have been found scattered all over the city.

Daniel was captured Thursday at his ranch, 215 miles west of Sao Paulo, after police briefly skirmished with four of his men. Chemicals, weapons and 330 pounds of cocaine paste were discovered on his property. Authorities say he smuggles 650 pounds of cocaine paste into Brazil from Bolivia every month thanks to a helicopter owned by colleague Floriano Nolasco da Silva who, along with two of his men, were arrested in Santa Catarina state, further south of Sao Paulo.

Meanwhile, in the more crowded environs of Rio, police met a lot more resistance as they hit the hillside slums of Kerosene and San Carlos in search of 21-year-old Tiago Teixeira - nicknamed Coelho, or “Rabbit” in Portuguese. According to an unnamed police investigator, most of those found dead - apparently tortured and then shot execution-style - were from Teixeira’s own gang and had apparently tried to mutiny with the assistance of a rival gang. If so, they discovered he was no bunny. Press reports did wisely add, though, that execution-style killings are also the handiwork of death squads, in which police have been implicated in the past.