BY ANNIE HOLLER
MOUNTAIN CITIZEN

INEZ — Martin County Circuit Judge Kevin Holbrook sentenced a local man to 11 years in prison Thursday in Inez for violence-related crimes.

Samuel Porter, 30, of Debord, was sentenced after pleading guilty to two counts of first-degree wanton endangerment and one count of third-degree terroristic threatening.

The judge gave him five years on each of the wanton endangerment counts and 12 months for terroristic threatening, according to the judge’s docket.

Porter’s charges stemmed from an incident in March 2025 in which he endangered a female and a juvenile and threatened to murder the female.