Arms trafficker Viktor Bout was arrested on Thursday in Thailand.

Form the New York Times:

A Russian businessman regarded by the United States as one of the world’s most notorious arms dealers was arrested in Thailand on Thursday as part of an American-led sting operation. He was promptly charged in the United States with conspiracy for trying to smuggle missiles and rocket launchers to rebels in Colombia. The businessman, Viktor Bout, 41, is suspected of supplying weapons to the Taliban and Al Qaeda and of pouring huge arms shipments into Africa’s civil wars with his own private air fleet. He was arrested by the Thai authorities at a hotel in Bangkok in an operation in which undercover investigators posing as rebels from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, sought to purchase millions of dollars in arms.

Viktor Bout gained worldwide fame after Douglas Farah’s book Merchant of Death: Money, Guns, Planes, and the Man Who Makes War Possible, released in 2007.

Read his post at his about the arrest from his blog here.

Arms trafficking is a $10 billion market.