Ana Montana, who shares a son with NBA star LaMelo Ball, has been arrested in North Carolina on felony charges alleging she obtained the anti-anxiety drug alprazolam through fraud or forgery. Her lawyer says the case centres on prescriptions written by a doctor accused of using fraudulent credentials, not on Ball himself.
Montana, whose real name is Analicia Chaves, was arrested on September 28 in Mecklenburg County, according to booking records. She faces two felony counts of obtaining a controlled substance by fraud or forgery and two misdemeanor counts of simple possession of a Schedule IV controlled substance. She was held on a $20,000 bond in connection with the felony charges. The warrant in the case was issued on September 22, six days before the arrest, and the alleged conduct dates back to February 21.
The allegation is specific. Authorities say Montana obtained alprazolam, the generic form of Xanax, from a Walgreens pharmacy using prescriptions written with a doctor's allegedly stolen Drug Enforcement Administration registration and medical provider identification number. That framing matters because the case is not described as street-drug distribution; it is a prescription-fraud case built around credentials, pharmacy records and the legitimacy of the documents used to obtain medication. Prosecutors will need to show what Montana knew about the prescriptions, a point her defence is already emphasising.
Her lawyer offered a different reading of the same facts. The defence says the charges allege that a doctor using a fraudulent DEA registration and provider number prescribed the medication, and that Montana obtained it by presenting that doctor's prescription at a pharmacy. On that account, the possession charges flow from the medication she received rather than from an unrelated supply. The distinction between a patient deceived by a rogue prescriber and a participant in a fraud scheme is likely to be the central fight in the case.
Montana's public profile comes largely through Ball. The couple welcomed their son in January 2026 and announced his birth publicly in May. Ball, one of the NBA's most watched young guards, was traded from Charlotte to Minnesota in June, so the arrest arrived just as a new season approached and his personal life was already a subject of fan-media attention. There is no indication in the reports that Ball is accused of any wrongdoing in the prescription case.
Montana has not been convicted, and the charges will be tested through North Carolina's courts. Prescription-fraud cases often turn on paperwork trails, pharmacy logs and communications with medical offices, which can take months to litigate. For now, the arrest has placed a private family matter involving a high-profile player into public view, while the legal question remains narrower: who created the allegedly fraudulent prescriptions, and what did the person who used them know at the time?