But this "Cornbread" wasn't a holiday treat.

Rather, Dontay "Cornbread" Brewer was a staple in the Montgomery County drug trade, responsible for supplying 70 percent of the cocaine in Norristown, prosecutors said.

Even after two of the dealers who purchased from him were arrested in August in possession of 20 ounces of cocaine worth $56,700, Brewer, 28, continued his business, authorities said.

Even after seven more dealers who bought from Brewer were arrested when authorities seized 140 grams of cocaine, six loaded handguns and a loaded SKS assault rifle with a grenade launcher from them, Brewer kept up his trafficking business, prosecutors said.

So, in October, the Montgomery County District Attorney's Office used wiretaps on Brewer's phone and the phone of his "right-hand man," Craig Cole, 42, to bring them down, according to a news release.

When detectives went to Cole's residence on Chestnut Street near High Alley, in Norristown, which Brewer used as his "stash house," Cole tried to bring an early snow to Norristown by throwing 700 grams, or $70,000 worth of cocaine, out his third-story window, authorities said.

Subsequent search warrants at several other locations in Norristown uncovered $17,000 in cash, drug-packaging material including an industrial-sized machine used to press cocaine bricks, and 24 "fictitiously subscribed" cell phones, authorities said.

Brewer gave 12 of those phones to other dealers along with instructions on when and how to use them, Montgomery County District Attorney Risa Vetri Ferman said.

Ferman said that state laws don't require identification to purchase some cell phones, and it makes it more difficult for law enforcement to track criminal enterprises. She said that she hopes to get the problem addressed legislatively.

"It's a far cry from the old days when every single phone had a person's name attached to it," Ferman said. "The way the mobile telephone system operates now, you can purchase multiple phones and avoid detection for a long time."

Brewer, of Beech Street near Noble, in Norristown, Cole and six others were charged with corrupt organizations and narcotics violations yesterday in connection with Brewer's cocaine trafficking operation, prosecutors said.