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Jose Sagardia Ruiz, 42, left, and Edrick Vasquez Montalvo, 32, who are wanted in connection with a Sept. 10 murder in Puerto Rico, are pictured shortly after their capture on Staten Island. (Photo courtesy of Puerto Rico Police Department)

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- They picked the wrong day to sleep in.

Two Puerto Rican drug lords wanted for murder made a basement apartment in Stapleton their home for the past month until their capture Wednesday afternoon, law enforcement sources tell the Advance.

At about 1 p.m., members of the New York/New Jersey Regional Fugitive Task Force -- which includes U.S. Marshals and members of the NYPD -- tracked the two men to 75 Pleasant Valley Ave.

There, the task force found them sound asleep, with all the doors to the place wide open, sources said.

The men -- Jose Sagardia Ruiz, 42, and Edrick Vasquez Montalvo, 32 -- are both members of the Netas, a powerful drug gang operating in Puerto Rico, said Ednan Narvaez, an agent with the Puerto Rico Police Department.

They're accused of shooting and killing Noel Ostoloza Vasquez, 23, on Sept. 10, during a botched hit on another drug lord on a highway in the Anasco section of Puerto Rico.

Ostolaza Vasquez's was driving Luis Candelaria Ruiz, who had been released from jail that day, according to reports in Puerto Rican media. Another passenger in the vehicle was wounded.

Narvaez said that Sagardia Ruiz and Vasquez Montalvo wanted to kill Candelaria Ruiz over drug territory.

After the killing, Vasquez Montalvo started using his cousin's identity, "and his cousin was arrested here in Puerto Rico about two weeks ago for drugs," Narvaez said.

"I think they have some friends from Puerto Rico living (on Staten Island.) Edrick knew some guy who he grew up with in Puerto Rico," Narvaez said.

The fugitive task force was able to track their activities electronically, and caught up with them on Wednesday, law enforcement sources said.

"They were both out like a light at one o'clock in the afternoon," said one police source, marveling at how they were using their actual names while living here.

"They know they're wanted, and they're carrying their actual drivers licenses from Puerto Rico," the source said.

The two men are expected to be arraigned in Stapleton Criminal Court on Thursday, and will then be extradited to Puerto Rico.