Teen who stabbed 3 officers in Times Square on New Year's pleads guilty

Trevor Bickford pleaded guilty Thursday to federal charges stemming from a 2022 New Year's Eve knife attack on three New York Police Department officers manning a checkpoint on the Times Square periphery.

Bickford, who was 19 when he carried out the alleged attack, came from Maine in December 2022 intending to carry out a jihadist attack on officers in uniform, prosecutors said.

Bickford pleaded guilty to three counts of attempted murder of government officials and three counts of assault on government officials.

He faces up to 120 years in prison.

Bickford allegedly told investigators the attack was unsuccessful because none of the officers died and because he did not achieve martyrdom, according to the complaint from the Southern District of New York.

Bickford was shot and arrested by officers on Dec. 31, 2022, after he allegedly attacked three NYPD officers with an 18-inch kukri knife near West 52nd Street and Eighth Avenue, outside the secure area that had been set up for New Year's Eve celebrations.

The attack prompted security adjustments for this year's New Year's Eve celebrations in Times Square.

It was not immediately clear what charge or charges Bickford would plead guilty to or what, if anything, he might receive in return from federal prosecutors.

He faces separate charges by the Manhattan district attorney.