Lawrence Police today confiscated about 60 to 70 marijuana plants they found in a house located only about a block away from New York elementary school and a few blocks east of the police department’s headquarters.

One man was arrested, officers said.

Officers went to the house at 1036 N.Y. St. about 11:30 a.m. armed with a search warrant and spent the next several hours at the house. The house is about four blocks east of Lawrence’s downtown.

For more on this story, see the 6News reports at 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. and pick up a copy of Wednesday’s Journal-World.