It’s a Party in the ADF: Men Charged With Miley Cyrus Bar Beating Now up on Felonies

The three men charged with the Miley Cyrus Gang bar beating were slapped with felonies and jailed Monday.

The so-called Miley Cyrus Boys—Daniel Lahey, 26, of 2424 Morning Glory Lane in Crest Hill, Robert Krapil, 27, of 2806 Amanda Court in Joliet, and Ryan Elliott, 27, of 1310 Cora St. in Joliet—were charged with nothing more than misdemeanor battery the night of the alleged May 11 attack at the Hickory Street bar Lety's Place.

But when the men appeared in court Monday they were charged with felonies and hauled off to the Will County Adult Detention Facility.

All three were charged with aggravated battery and mob action. Elliott was also tagged with a hate crime charge.

Elliott just got out of jail May 20. He spent five days locked up at the ADF on two counts of aggravated battery for allegedly attacking a man and breaking his nose in a different bar last year. He was released after his bond was reduced from $250,000 to $50,000 and he posted the 10 percent needed to get out.

The case stemmed from Elliott allegedly punching Joliet resident Jim Lanham in the face in June. Lanham said he was at the Essington Road bar On the Rocks when Elliott—who had been in a confrontation with other bar patrons—attacked him without provocation.

Prosecutors dropped the case against Elliott soon after his arrest but filed the felonies after Patch reported the alleged Miley Cyrus bar attack and the case garnered national attention.

After Elliott was charged with felonies for the alleged On the Rocks attack, a GoFundMe page was set up to bankroll his legal defense.

"Please check out this page to help raise money for Ryan," the appeal for charity says. "Since this incident has taken a whole new life, thanks to the media, he has to hire a defense attorney which will run him a pretty penny. Not to mention take care of his wife and infant daughter."

Elliott needs "needs your help, so that he can put this disaster behind him," the GoFundMe page says.

As of Monday evening, the page had pulled in $255.

In the alleged Lety's place attack, Elliott, Krapil and Lahey walked into the tavern and "started talking about Miley Cyrus" before beating up two men and a woman, police said.

One of the two men who said he was beaten by the Miley Cyrus Boys at Lety's Place detailed the alleged attack in a video featured on Patch. The man, Donny Rice, told how the gang subjected a bar patron to racial slurs and ordered him to "go over and sit over at the other end of the bar with all of the other Mexicans."

Rice said the gang then began beating the Hispanic man and his girlfriend—whom he did not know but stepped in to try to save.

Sources said there is a warrant out for the arrest of a fourth member of the Miley Cyrus Gang. The warrant carries similar charges to those filed against Krapil and Lahey, the sources said.

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