Fabolous was charged with criminal posession of a weapon and possesion of a defaced weapon Tuesday. The arrest was made just hours after the Brooklyn rapper was shot in the right thigh during an ambush in New York. He wa released on $50,000 bond on Wednesday and his lawyer maintains Fabolous denies any of the weapons in question belonged to him.

 

"Sooner or later, we feel the investigation will be redirected and he will be viewed as a victim of a crime rather someone who was involved in a crime," attorney Alberto Ebanks told MTV.com.

 

The two felony charges resulted from police pulling over the speeding vehicle fleeing the scene of the shooting, en route to get Fabolous, who was bleeding profusely, to the hospital. Also charged in the case were the three men traveling with Fabolous, all reportedly residents of Fabolous' Bedford-Stuyforsant neighborhood.

Ebanks told sources the felony charges, which could carry a sentence of two to seven years, will likely be dismissed.