Police made an arrest in the strangling death of a Feltonville woman Friday.Officers responded to reports of a woman inside a residence on the 1900block of East Tioga Street at 11 a.m. There, they found the body ofMaribel Rivera, 41, of the 5100 block of Whitaker Avenue.Rivera was lying on a bed on the rear bedroom unconscious. She was takento Aria-Frankford Hospital, where she was pronounced dead at 11:40 a.m.The cause of death was determined to be strangulation.Police arrested Richard Lebron, 42, of the 1900 block of East Tioga Street, and charged him with murder and related offenses.
