diff --git a/arviz/data/io_numpyro.py b/arviz/data/io_numpyro.py
index e742732ee2..f8fc098a68 100644
--- a/arviz/data/io_numpyro.py
+++ b/arviz/data/io_numpyro.py
@@ -194,7 +194,7 @@ def log_likelihood_to_xarray(self):
             )
             for obs_name, log_like in log_likelihood_dict.items():
                 shape = (self.nchains, self.ndraws) + log_like.shape[1:]
-                data[obs_name] = np.reshape(log_like.copy(), shape)
+                data[obs_name] = np.reshape(np.asarray(log_like), shape)
         return dict_to_dataset(
             data,
             library=self.numpyro,