LaMelo Ball’s longtime partner arrested in Charlotte: What we know

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) – Former Hornets star LaMelo Ball’s longtime partner was arrested in Charlotte this week, records show.

Analicia Chaves — known online as “Ana Montana” — was booked into the Mecklenburg County jail on Monday, Sept. 28.

Court records showed the 36-year-old Chaves was charged with:

2 counts of obtaining a controlled substance by fraud/forgery
2 counts of simple possession of a Schedule IV controlled substance

An arrest warrant alleged that Chaves obtained alprazolam — the generic name for Xanax — from a Walgreens pharmacy via a prescription supposedly prescribed by a doctor whose DEA registration and NPI number was stolen or fraudulently obtained.

The warrant listed the date of the offense as Feb. 21, 2026. The warrant was not issued until Sept. 22.

Chaves was released from jail after she posted a $10,000 bond.

She and the 25-year-old Ball have been together for several years now. The couple just had their first child, LaOne, in January.

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Ball spent six seasons with the Hornets after they chose him with the third overall pick in the 2020 NBA draft. Ball won the rookie of the year award following his first season, and was named an All-Star the next.

He helped lead Charlotte to the play-in tournament and its most regular-season wins in a decade during the 2025-2026 campaign. The Hornets subsequently traded Ball to the Minnesota Timberwolves for Naz Reid and draft picks in June.

The Hornets will play Ball and the Timberwolves in Minnesota on Jan. 29, before hosting them in Charlotte on Feb. 15.