This drug dealer wasn’t smarter than the average bear.

A California man told cops during a traffic stop that he had just seen Yogi Bear in Yellowstone National Park — sparking a search that allegedly uncovered 8 pounds of meth.

Manuel Paz Sanchez, Jr., 32, was initially stopped on a highway in Columbus, Montana, because his rented Ford sedan was following too close to the car ahead, according to the Billings Gazette.

He then alarmed officers during the stop when he said he had just come from Yellowstone National Park — insisting he saw cartoon character Yogi Bear, the report said, citing an affidavit by a Drug Enforcement Administration agent.

Sanchez let officers search the car, and they found six vacuum-sealed packages of meth inside the spare tire, according to the US Attorney’s Office. The 8.3 pounds of the drug would be about 30,000 doses, the prosecutors said in a statement.

Sanchez, of Sacramento, pleaded guilty in May to possession with intent to distribute meth over the stop in Dec. 2017, the attorney’s office said.

He was sentenced Thursday to 15 years and eight months in prison and to five years of supervised release, the officials said.