Miley Cyrus Boy Ringleader Tries Again to Ditch Booze-Monitoring Bracelet

The man tabbed as the ringleader of the Miley Cyrus Boys doesn’t want to wear an alcohol-monitoring bracelet anymore and considers the cost of keeping it on “burdensome,” according to court papers filed by his attorney.

Ryan Elliott, 28, tried — and failed — once before to convince Will County Judge Carla Alessio Policandriotes that he shouldn’t have to wear a Secure Continuous Remote Alcohol Monitoring bracelet any longer. Elliott was ordered to wear the SCRAM device after he finished doing 27 days in the county jail for attacking two men in two different Joliet bars last year.

Elliott — along with Jason Palacios, Daniel Lahey and Robert Krapil, all also 28 — launched an unprovoked attack against 35-year-old Alex Hernandez at the Hickory Street bar Lety’s place in May 2014, police said.

The four were gabbing about Miley Cyrus when they got to Lety’s, police said, but quickly turned their attention to Hernandez, who was there with his girlfriend, Jennifer Baranski, 33.

Hernandez said Elliott first ordered him to “take your ass to the other end of the bar with all the other Mexicans,” then let loose with a few ethnic slurs before he and his three buddies pummeled him and knocked him to the floor.

Baranski tried to shield Hernandez from the blows, the couple said, but the four men, along with two others who have never been arrested or identified, beat her as well.

Donny Rice, the father of the woman who was tending bar at Lety’s that night, had just stopped by to bring her some dinner when the Miley Cyrus Boys went after Hernandez. Rice, 45, said he told them to stop beating Hernandez and Baranski. They allegedly responded by savagely battering him as well.

Elliott was also charged with aggravated battery for breaking the nose of Joliet resident Jim Lanham, 42, with an unprovoked punch at the Essington Road bar On the Rocks in June 2013.

Elliott pleaded guilty to aggravated battery in connection with both attacks and dodged a hate crime charge from the Lety’s Place case.

Palacios was allowed to walk free after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor. As part of his deal, he agreed to testify against his pals. Krapil and Lahey have yet to go to trial or plead guilty.

In September, Elliott’s attorney, Neil Patel, filed an emergency motion asking that Elliott lose his SCRAM bracelet since the cost was burdensome. Alessio Policandriotes denied the request but agreed to reconsider it at a later date.

Typically, a SCRAM bracelet has a “one-time installation fee and a requirement that you pay all or contribute to the daily monitoring fee,” according to the website ScramSystems.

The initial cost is between $50 and $100 and the daily fee runs between $10 and $15, according to the website CriminalDefenseLawyer.

Elliott has been wearing the bracelet for more than four months.