Agent Michael Pelligrino, center, Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office, talks with Trenton police officers. (Michael Mancuso | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com)
Many towns across the country hold small, informal “Coffee with a Cop” events, but in Trenton it’s big.
Freddie and Rosa Rosado, owners of a McDonald’s in the city where they were both born and raised, are all about the local community. So they routinely fill the seats in their restaurant, located across the street from Trenton Central High School, with first responders and their friends and families for the presentation of their Coffee with a Cop Community Service Awards.
The Rosados also created the Detective Pablo Santiago Memorial Award, named for the Mercer County Sheriff’s Officer who took his own life on December 26, 2018. Remembering Santiago ( a former community service award winner) in her remarks, Rosa Rosado said “He was a person who was all about giving back to the community. A total role model. The definition of…
