Radicalized teen Trevor Bickford gets 27 years in prison for NYE Times Square machete attack on NYPD cops
NY Post
An admitted wannabe jihadist who attacked three NYPD cops with a foot-long machete in Times Square on New Year’s Eve in 2022 was sentenced to 27 years in prison Thursday.
Trevor Bickford was handed down the sentence by Judge Kevin Castel in Manhattan federal court after pleading guilty in January to slashing three cops in a lone wolf attack during the annual celebration in the Crossroads of the World, according to prosecutors with the Manhattan US Attorney’s Office.
As part of the sentence, the 20-year-old Maine native will be on lifetime supervision once he’s freed.
Bickford had faced up to 120 years behind bars if the judge doled out maximum consecutive sentences on all six counts he pleaded guilty to.
In the days leading up to the incident, Bickford, then 19, traveled from his Maine home to New York City with a machete and a twisted plan to kill as many people as possible in the name of Islamic jihad, prosecutors say.
The machete-wielding madman unleashed his New Year’s Eve attack near West 52nd Street and Eighth Avenue while screaming “Allahu Akbar” — which translates in Arabic to God is great — prosecutors say.
