Joseph F. King (born c. 1948[1]) is a former senior US Customs agent and criminal justice academic.
He served for 33 years as a Special Agent in the United States Customs Service's New York office.
He later gained an MPhil and PhD from the City University of New York CUNY Graduate Center (1990 and 1999).
[2] From 1985 to 2003 he was Supervisory Special Agent in the Strategic Investigations Division in the United States Customs Service's New York office.
[1][6] Later he played an Irish arms dealer named Joe Kennedy, foiling a 1993 plot to smuggle zirconium to Iraq.