Prosecutors are expected today to urge a judge to sentence the second of two felons who beat Bryan Stow nearly to death in a Dodger Stadium parking lot to about five years in federal prison for weapons possession.
Marvin Norwood faces up to 10 years in prison when sentenced for being a felon in possession of firearms.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Max Shiner wants Norwood to serve 64 months in a federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, based on the defendant’s “history of violence, the nature of the firearms he possessed, and his efforts to conceal his firearms,” according to the sentencing papers.
In a letter to the court, Norwood’s fiancee, Dorene Sanchez, wrote that the defendant is needed at home as a “father figure” to her two children from a prior relationship.
“He was always there for them, whenever they needed him,” the sister of Norwood’s co-defendant, Louie Sanchez, wrote.
Dorene Sanchez allegedly drove the “getaway vehicle” for the two men after the Stow attack and was granted “use immunity” for her testimony in the preliminary hearing in the beating case in state court.
Police investigating the Stow beating found semi-automatic rifles, other weapons and ammunition belonging to co-defendant Louie Sanchez at Norwood’s Rialto home.
In a jail recording, Norwood told Sanchez: “They got the guns. There ain’t no getting around that,” court papers show.
Norwood, 34, was transferred to federal custody after serving almost three years behind bars for Stow’s beating.
Sanchez, 33, was sentenced a few weeks ago to six years in federal prison for weapons possession, a term that will add about three years to his state prison sentence for the Stow attack.
Authorities found about a half-dozen weapons — two semi-automatic rifles and a pistol, a 12-gauge shotgun and a revolver — along with nearly 70 rounds of ammunition when they searched Norwood’s home in connection with the Stow assault.
Norwood told police that the guns were not his and that he had allowed Sanchez to store them at his residence. Federal authorities, however, determined that the weapons were in the possession of, and available to, both men.
Court records showed both Norwood and Sanchez had prior convictions in San Bernardino before the unprovoked Stow assault at Dodger Stadium on March 31, 2011.
Norwood was found guilty of felony spousal assault in 2006, the federal indictment shows.
The weapons and ammunition were recovered from the garage attic crawl space at Norwood’s home.
Both Norwood and Sanchez are currently in federal custody.
A federal grand jury in Los Angeles indicted Sanchez and Norwood on the firearms charge in March 2014, shortly after their guilty pleas in state court.
Norwood was taken into federal custody a day after he was sentenced in state court.
He had spent eight months in county jail beyond the two years of the four-year sentence he was required to serve as part of a plea deal in the Stow assault and was about to be released before federal authorities pounced.
