Bryan Stow`s attackers indicted for guns

March 07--LOS ANGELES -- Two men who pleaded guilty in connection with the near-fatal attack on San Francisco Giants fan Bryan Stow outside Dodger Stadium have been indicted on federal gun charges.

Marvin Norwood, 33, and Louis Sanchez, 31, were indicted Wednesday by a grand jury in Los Angeles on charges of being convicted felons in possession of firearms and ammunition.

Norwood was sentenced Feb. 20 in Los Angeles County Superior Court to four years in prison for the March 2011 assault that left Stow, a 45-year-old paramedic and father of two, with permanent brain damage. Sanchez, 31, was sentenced to eight years.

Norwood pleaded guilty to felony assault for the attack, which happened after the opening game of the 2011 season. Sanchez admitted to felony mayhem for sucker-punching Stow, causing him to fall unconscious to the pavement, with the impact fracturing his skull.

With credit for time served, Norwood could have been released within days of his sentencing. But a magistrate ordered him held without bail to face the federal gun charges stemming from a search of his home in Rialto (San Bernardino County) when he was arrested in July 2011.

The indictment incorporates the same allegations outlined in an earlier complaint filed in federal court.

When Norwood was arrested, Los Angeles police searching his home found two semiautomatic rifles, a shotgun, two handguns and live ammunition from a "garage attic crawl space," Special Agent Steven Goerke of the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives wrote in an affidavit filed in U.S. District Court.

Norwood told police the guns weren't his and that he had allowed Sanchez to store them at his house, Goerke wrote.

But during a secretly recorded jailhouse conversation, Norwood and Sanchez -- both convicted felons prohibiting from having firearms -- talked about "heats," or guns, Goerke wrote.

Norwood told Sanchez, "They got the guns. ... Ain't no getting around that," according to the affidavit.

Sanchez allegedly replied, "I'll have to make a deal man. ... Take all the heat, for the heats."

Sanchez has previous convictions for felony evading police and misdemeanor domestic violence. Norwood has a prior felony domestic-violence conviction.

Henry K. Lee is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: hlee@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @henryklee

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