Officially, Javier Navarro and Jose “Vaca” DeLeon are unemployed. When DeLeon appeared in federal court Tuesday, he asked a judge to assign him an attorney under a program designed to provide legal help for the destitute.

But according to federal agents, the two men made a bundle of money selling cocaine on the West Side of Buffalo.

The FBI says Navarro, 26, of Blum Avenue, owns four cars, including a Toyota Supra on which he spent $40,000 to customize it for racing at Lancaster Speedway.

DeLeon, 26, of Military Road, rents apartments on Military and on Page Avenue.

Between them, the two men invested more than $600,000 in cocaine, dating back to May 2009, agents said in court papers.

Authorities hope they brought their high times to an end with a drug roundup early Tuesday that included 25 other people from Western New York, Puerto Rico and New Jersey.

The defendants are charged with narcotics and gun and gangster activities on the West Side. Police charged that Navarro and DeLeon were the Buffalo coordinators of the drug operation.

The arrests stem from an investigation begun last summer by the FBIled Safe Streets Task Force, drug prosecutor Joseph M. Tripi said.

“The investigation revealed that Navarro and his co-conspirators have been involved in trafficking multiple-kilogram quantities of cocaine from source cities in Puerto Rico and New Jersey,” FBI Special Agent John A. Yervelli Jr. said in an affidavit.

“[Various] subjects of the investigation use and sell marijuana and heroin. In addition, the investigation has determined that a number of the subjects of the investigation also possess and sell firearms.”

DeLeon is accused of supplying drugs to the notorious 10th Street Gang, which is alleged by police to be responsible for numerous acts of violence on the West Side.

Among the other allegations in a 282-page government indictment:

Navarro received at least a kilogram of cocaine from suppliers in New Jersey every two weeks from October through December of last year.

DeLeon’s “main cocaine customers” are “significant members” of the 10th Street Gang.

Carlos Cruz, 29, an accused coke supplier from Newark, N. J., charged Navarro $31,000 per kilogram and told Navarro he paid people $4,500 per trip to carry coke shipments in their luggage on commercial airliners flying from Puerto Rico to New Jersey.

Agents found $39,000 in cash in a package Navarro sent from Buffalo to New Jersey last August; and in December, agents found $63,000 hidden in a car driven on the Thruway by two other defendants in the case, Alex Santiago, 27, and Kathleen Nieves, 19, both of Buffalo.

During a police search at the baggage area of Buffalo Niagara International Airport on Dec. 14, a kilogram of coke was found inside a wax candle, and another kilogram was found inside the plastic molding of a gift basket containing bath supplies.

Felony drug possession charges and other federal charges were filed against the individuals, Tripi said.

Others charged in the case are: Edwin Laurencio, 23; Javier Santiago, 25; Christopher Santiago, 25; Laura Sirianni-Navarro, 22; Luis Vazquez, 23; Isabelo Cruz, 34; Matthew Deynes, 28; Nourooz Ali, 26; Efrain Barretto, 30; Nelson Colon, 26; Rolando Rivera-Santos, 34; Ronald Kolasinski, 32; and Jose Figueroa, 27; all of Buffalo.

Also, David Colon, 45, and Ashley Weston, 23, both of Cheektowaga; Anibal Gonzalez, 32, Town of Tonawanda; Ronald Mitchell, 28, Hamburg; Margarita Ortiz, 32, Newark; and Eric DeLeon-Navarro, 42; Julio

M. DeLeon-Navarro, 41; Javier Mejias, 35; and Eric DeLeon Jr., 23; all of San Juan, Puerto Rico.

In addition to the FBI, the Safe Streets Task Force comprises investigators from the U. S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives; Buffalo police; state police; state parole officers; Erie County Probation Department; Amherst police and Cheektowaga police.