Ex-Cop Sentenced To 4 Years In Drowning Death

A former Cobb County SWAT officer was sentenced to four years in prison on Thursday for lying about a boating accident on Lake Allattoona last spring that left his friend and fellow SWAT Officer Brent Stephens dead.

The judge also gave Kenneth Reda 11 years of probation. Channel 2 Action News reporter Ross Cavitt was at the courthouse during the sentencing hearing.

Reda pleaded guilty earlier this month to second-degree homicide by vessel, among other charges.

Prosecutors said he lied and covered up events of the April 2010 boating accident.