The 19-year-old Maine man accused of attacking police with a machete near New York's Times Square on New Year's Eve is now facing federal terrorism charges, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced.
accused of attacking police with a machete near New York's Times Square on New Year's Eve
Bickford was already charged with attempting to murder police officers, assault and attempted assault in state court in Manhattan. If convicted, he faces a mandatory life sentence. They said he decided in November to wage jihad against U.S. officials and officials of other governments he thought to be anti-Muslim.
A criminal complaint in Manhattan federal court said Bickford told a family member in late November or early December that he wanted to go to Jordan or Afghanistan to be a suicide bomber for his religion, and he told an older brother, a soldier in the U.S. military, in text messages in mid-December that he wanted to go to Afghanistan to join the Taliban.
It said family members reported that Bickford had recently converted to Islam and begun frequenting mosques in and around Maine and New Hampshire, where Bickford lived with different family members. As part of that effort, Bickford traveled from Maine to New York City for the Dec. 31 attack, the complaint said.
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