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A Lake County judge ordered Cody Fields to wear a SCRAM ankle monitor Friday – to detect his drinking – after he was arrested in October with a gun following a bar fight.

Fields, 28, of Cedar Lake, is on bond after he was charged Aug. 20 with a drunken head-on crash on the 2100 block of W. 169th Avenue in Lowell in February. The other driver survived.

Deputy Prosecutor Jacob Brandewie filed to revoke his bond – i.e., put him back in jail — after the October arrest.

Judge Natalie Bokota rejected the request. The two new criminal cases he faced were misdemeanors.

Instead, she issued a court order barring him from drinking, requiring an alcohol abuse course with random screenings, and the SCRAM monitor.

His next hearing is Jan. 14.

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