Update: Fat Joe’s Fam offers Alibi, “Tell The Police They’ve Got Their Information Wrong”

Posted: May 31, 2007 in: Fat Joe | By: Jason |

Terror Squad honcho Fat Joe, who is currently being sought by Miami authorities as a witness of a double homicide during the Memorial weekend, is allegedly out of the country according to his nephew.

Police believe that Fat Joe was in a rented black Cadillac Escalade with Lessli Paz and Joey Navarro outside a local eatery early Monday morning (May 28) when they purportedly got into an altercation with another man identified as Jermaine ''Wufgang'' Chamberline.

According to an arrest report released Tuesday, a fist fight took place and "[Chamberline] reached into his right-front pocket and pulled out a 9mm handgun." Three slugs would hit Navarro, 26, of Homestead, Florida who later died at the hospital. Paz, 25, of New York, died on the sidewalk from a gunshot wound.

When police arrived, they detained four men who claimed they were friends of the dead men but later refused to cooperate. Chamberline would be arrested minutes later and would eventually confess to shooting Paz and Navarro.

According to Joe's teenage nephew, John Garcia, who spoke to The New York Daily News, the Bronx bred rapper is presently in Russia.

"He left the Saturday before Memorial Day. He's on tour. I swear to God. He should be home in like three days," he explained. "Tell the police they've got their information wrong."

It is still unclear if Fat Joe (born Jose Cartagena) was directly involved in the fight and how he slipped away from the scene, if he was indeed there. Police claim they only want to talk to him as a possible witness.

"If he's a witness, we'd love to speak with him," said Police Sgt. Bobby Hernandez.