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Be careful what you wish for.

Media-hungry Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who just last week about a supposed 鈥渂lack out鈥� on news of his investigation into the validity of President Obama鈥檚 birth certificate, is finally getting the media coverage he deserves.

In a lengthy and widely circulated story, the Associated Press yesterday revealed that the 79-year-old Arizona sheriff鈥檚 office 鈥渋nadequately investigated鈥� more than 400 sex-crime cases that were reported to it between 2005 and 2007.

Investigators in the town of El Mirage, which paid Arpaio鈥檚 office $2.7 million for police protection during those years, say that an 鈥渙verwhelming majority鈥� of the cases they reviewed 鈥� including at least 32 involving child molestation 鈥� hadn鈥檛 been worked at all. Many of the victims, including a 3-year-old reportedly molested by her father, were children of undocumented immigrants.

Arpaio鈥檚 office declined to tell the AP why the cases were left to rot, but Bill Louis, a retired El Mirage police official who reviewed the files, believes they were deliberately ignored.

"I know the investigators,鈥� said Louis, a former assistant police chief. 鈥淚 just cannot believe they would wholesale discount these cases. The direction had to come [from] up the food chain鈥� 鈥� probably, he said, from someone who knew that undocumented immigrants often avoid contacting the police out of fear of being deported. In other words, they鈥檙e unlikely to complain about their cases being ignored.

Arpaio, who describes himself as 鈥淎merica鈥檚 toughest sheriff,鈥� has no love for undocumented immigrants. He is currently the subject of a federal civil rights investigation into possible racial profiling. In April, county budget officials that he improperly spent nearly $100 million in jail funds to pay for other law enforcement operations, including immigration patrols and raids. Conditions at his jails were found in 2008 to violate prisoners鈥� constitutional rights.

The AP鈥檚 devastating report on his failure to investigate sex crimes is not the only media attention the sheriff is getting. No less prestigious a publication than the Globe, a supermarket tabloid best known for publishing the autopsy photos of celebrity murder victims and revealing the names of female accusers in high-profile rape cases, this week features a 鈥渂ombshell world exclusive鈥� on the lawman鈥檚 into the president鈥檚 true identity. According to an unnamed source, the sheriff鈥檚 all-volunteer 鈥淐old Case Posse鈥� (which is tasked with getting to the bottom of the non-controversy over Obama鈥檚 provenance) has broadened the scope of its inquiry to include rumors that the president鈥檚 father was left-wing poet and activist Frank Marshall Davis.

The tabloid also says that the posse, unsatisfied with the 鈥渓ong-form鈥� birth certificate the president released in April, is now requesting the document in its original 鈥渋nk-and-paper鈥� form. 鈥淚t鈥檚 a serious investigation,鈥� arch-birther told Globe reporter Jim Nelson. 鈥淭hey鈥檙e collecting hundreds of pages of documentation, they鈥檙e talking to multiple experts, they鈥檙e corroborating statements. It鈥檚 ongoing 鈥� and it鈥檚 widening!鈥�

Arpaio reportedly thanked the Globe for its coverage. 鈥淚 love you guys,鈥� he said. 鈥淵ou guys are the only ones carrying this story on Obama. [Not true: Joseph Farah鈥檚 WorldNetDaily, an online publication, .] Thank you for getting this story out.鈥�

So far, the AP is reporting no such expressions of gratitude for its excellent coverage of Arpaio鈥檚 investigative priorities. Perhaps the lawman鈥檚 thank-you note got lost in the mail.