West Bend police say an 8-year-old boy drowned in a West Bend swimming pond while attending a birthday party Saturday afternoon. According to the West Bend Police Department, one of the boy's family members notified a lifeguard at the Regner Park Swimming Pond that she could not find the boy. Police said lifeguards immediately began searching and cleared the pond. The boy was later found unresponsive in the water and brought to shore by a group.