Protest with Dildo Lands 'Drag Race' Star Tyra Sanchez in Jail

A month after being arrested for a fracas in which she threatened to shoot a cop, "Drag Race" star Tyra Sanchez is in jail again – this time for making a "big old dildo" part of a protest.

Entertainment Weekly reported that Sanchez – real name James Ross – has been detained by police and is in Bradford County Jail in Florida.

The incident took place "after publicly protesting his initial May 17 arrest for allegedly resisting arrest after a car accident in Starke, Fla.," EW detailed.

Police Chief Jeff Johnson provided details to the publication, telling EW, that Ross "came out" in a "little outfit" and with a "police sign, hanging it up and showing and dancing."

Johnson noted that although the "Drag Race" star – famous for having won Season 2 of the iconic reality show – "was in a little G-string with a black bra." Ross was "still was within the 'freedom of speech' category" at that point, even though Ross' protest "was in an intersection within a construction zone, but it wasn't really causing a traffic problem."

EW explained that, according to Johnson, "it became an issue when Ross 'went home' and returned after strapping 'on a big old dildo' under" the tights that the drag artist was wearing at the time.

Johnson described a scene in which Ross "comes back out on the road and starts shaking it, and that's when people started stopping and cussing... and causing a traffic problem. It was bad from there on."

The arrest is the latest in Ross' controversies.

EW said that Ross "has become a polarizing figure in the 'Drag Race' fandom, with some criticizing Ross for being banned from DragCon for making allegedly threatening posts ahead of the 2018 event – though Sanchez later apologized for his behavior in 2019."

Commenting on that situation in an email, Ross had previously told EW, "I never threatened DragCon and I damn sure never apologized for it."

In the same email, Ross "also referenced charges related to 'exposure of sexual organs,'" EW added, before noting that "police did not discuss that charge when reached for comment."

But Ross spoke out about a sequence of events in which, the drag performer listed, "A drag queen is wrongfully arrested, the drag queen protests, the charges are dropped."

"Drag queen is cleared and now a week later new charges of 'exposure of sexual organs' because the drag queen protested in drag? Get real."

Ross' latest arrest follows a report by TMZ that said an arrest report seen by the outlet detailed how Ross "got into a minor car crash with another driver" in May. When police arrived, the arrest report documents, Ross "jumped out of the car and started yelling at the cop."

An officer attempted to de-escalate the situation, the arrest report recounted, but things only got worse, and at one point the drag artist started to reach into the car, "at which point the officer put [Ross] in a bear hug," TMZ relayed. The officer "eventually deployed a taser," to no avail; "when the cop tried to slap on handcuffs," TMZ related, Ross "allegedly threatened to shoot the officer."

The arrest report says that Ross took off on foot, but the escape attempt was short-lived. The "Drag Race" alum was soon "arrested for assault on a law enforcement officer and resisting without violence."

In an even earlier incident, in 2020, UK newspaper the Daily Mail recalled, according to "a spokesperson for the Atlanta Police Department," officers there "responded to a call at an apartment complex, where someone had spray-painted the words 'do not move here' across the building..."

Charges of "criminal damage to the property" were brought against Ross, the newspaper detailed.

EW relayed that, regarding the protest with the dildo, the drag artist will face a charge of "breach of peace."