Man pleads guilty to terrorism charges in 2022 New Year's Eve machete attack on NYPD officers

NEW YORK -- A 20-year-old man has pleaded guilty to federal terrorism charges in a machete attack on three NYPD officers on New Year's Eve in 2022, prosecutors said.

Trevor Bickford of Wells, Maine, pleaded guilty Thursday to three counts each of attempted murder of officers and employees of the U.S. government and assault of officers and employees of the U.S. government, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York said in a news release.

In a New York City courtroom Thursday, Bickford confessed to U.S. District Judge P. Kevin Castel that "I attempted to kill three officers with a knife." He also said, "I know what I did was wrong, and I am sorry."