“He’s not a terrorist — he was stupid.”

That’s how a defense lawyer described the Bronx man who admitted aiming a laser pointer at commercial airplanes near La Guardia Airport after he was brought in to a Manhattan courtroom Monday to face federal charges.

Elehecer Balaguer turned himself in to authorities Monday morning and was later charged in Manhattan federal court with pointing a laser at an aircraft — a relatively new federal felony punishable by up to five years in prison.

The bipolar Balaguer on Friday owned up to the charges in Bronx Criminal Court while his future brother-in-law Frank Egan was being charged with aiming the green laser at pilots. “I didn’t mean to hurt anyone, your honor,” he said.

Balaguer has yet to be indicted or enter a plea. His bail was set at $50,000.

Balaguer — who has a long rap sheet of drug and other petty crimes — told Magistrate Judge Debra Freeman Monday that his routine meds include methadone and an antipsychotic drug whose name is “such a long word” that he “can’t pronounce it.”