Plea Deal Taken By Falls Twp. Man In Mother's Murder

FALLS TOWNSHIP, PA —The Falls Township man who drugged, kidnapped, and murdered his mother on her birthday in April has accepted a plea deal, authorities said.

Sean Rivera, 28, of Berwyn Road, accepted the plea deal after waiving his right to a preliminary hearing at an appearance in Bucks County court Tuesday, the Falls Township Police Department said.

Under terms of the plea, Rivera will provide detectives with details of the incident in which72-year-old Carol Clark died in April after being found dead in a shed in the Frankford section of Philadelphia in early April.

The agreement allows Rivera to plead guilty to all five felony charges and serve a life sentence without parole in exchange for the Bucks County District Attorney's Office to not seek the death penalty, the Bucks County Courier Times reported.

Rivera was charged with criminal homicide, kidnapping, aggravated assault, possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance, and possession of an instrument of crime in the death of his mother after she was reported missing by another son.

Police said that he drugged his mother's ice tea with Fentanyl and then took her to a shed in Frankford where he shot and killed her on her birthday.

Rivera told police that he gave his mother the takeout Chinese food with iced tea that had Fentanyl in it. Rivera told police that he previously purchased the drug specifically to give to his mother.

Sometime between 2 a.m. and 3 a.m. Sunday, Rivera took his mother —who was in a lethargic state —in her red Toyota Rav4 to a building previously known as Frankford Friends on Waln Street in Philadelphia, police said.

He then wheeled Clark in the wheelchair to a shed at the rear of the property at 4371 Waln St., placed his mother in the shed, and shot her with his Glock 9MM Model 45 five times.