21 Graduate Marlboro Youth Police Academy

MARLBORO, NJ — The 2023 graduates of the Marlboro Youth Police Academy were honored at graduation ceremonies on Friday evening.

With Mayor Jonathan Hornik as the keynote speaker, the 21 students could celebrate after experiencing life as a police academy recruit for two weeks.

The students were engaged in drill and ceremony exercises, physical training, classroom presentations, and live demonstrations, the police department's Capt. Stephen J. Levy explained.

"They received instruction on everything from the state police bomb squad to water rescue training in a pool to mock motor vehicle stops - and have even become CPR certified," he said.

They also took field trips to Newark Airport to get a behind-the-scenes look from Port Authority officers and visited the Monmouth County courthouse to see how the criminal justice system functions beyond the realm of law-enforcement, he said.

Marlboro Middle School auditorium was the site of the graduation for the latest class of recruits in a program that has been in place since 2015.

Here are the graduates:

• Edgar Balatski
• Gianluca Benedictis
• Adam Jon Bornhoeft
• Ivan Delgado
• Joseph Dellapenna
• Elizabeth Gasparini
• Madhav Gurjar
• Annabel Korzha
• Kevin Macgari
• Hayden Madsen
• Sahasra Maradani
• Joseph Pampinella
• Giancarlo Reyes
• Phillip Reznikov
• Leo Ruvinsky
• Lily Saada
• Sophia Sewald
• Ronak Shah
• Mehakleen Singh
• Cosette Tinio
• Allen Xie