Manure at Steven Mnuchin door: Secret Service jumps in over bomb scare

US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin speaks at the Economic Club of New York on November 9, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by AFP)

A gift-wrapped box of horse manure has been sent to the house of US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, sparking a bomb scare and triggering an investigation by the US Secret Service.

The suspicious package, addressed to Mnuchin’s Los Angeles home was found at 19:40 (03:40 GMT) at the home next to Mnuchin's in Bel Air.

The “gift” had been wrapped in a paper, which said it was sent from “the American people.”

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Law enforcement officials say that the suspicious package addressed to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin contained manure 

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The Los Angeles Police Department’s bomb squad was immediately called to handle the box.

The move reportedly caused troubles for some of the secretary’s high-profile neighbors.

Donald Trump's Treasury nominee Steven Mnuchin (C-L) and his wife Louise Linton are greeted upon arrival on the platform of the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on January 20, 2017, before the swearing-in ceremony of US President-elect Donald Trump.  (Photo by AFP)

"We have $50 million homes and we can't move, we can't get out," actress Zsa Zsa Gabor's widower Prince Frederick von Anhalt, who was trapped for two hours, told CBS. "That's bad, they have to find another way."

Mnuchin is a pro-Israel millionaire, who formerly worked as a Goldman Sachs Group executive and Hollywood film financier.