Trevor Bickford was sentenced to 27 years Thursday for attacking NYPD officers with a machete on New Year's Eve in 2022 near Times Square.
NEW YORK -- The man who attacked NYPD officers with a machete on New Year's Eve in 2022 near Times Square was sentenced to 27 years in prison Thursday. Trevor Bickford, of Wells, Maine , pleaded guilty to federal terrorism charges, including attempted murder of the officers, earlier this year. Bickford attacked Officers Louis Iorio, Paul Cozzolino and Mickel Hanna around 10 p.m. on Dec. 31, 2022 at 52nd Street and Eighth Avenue.
Bickford had been placed on a no-fly watchlist earlier that month after his aunt warned authorities he had been radicalized online and wanted to travel overseas to fight with Islamic extremists. He later confessed to a judge that 'I attempted to kill three officers with a knife,' adding, 'I know what I did was wrong, and I am sorry.'He faced up to 20 years in prison for each count.
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