Cregg Thompson

Cost For My Service

Pay what you can afford and what you feel the successful recovery of your lost item is worth to you. I trust folks to do right by a job well done.

Any travel-related expenses—such as mileage or lodging—as well as other incidental costs as needed will be agreed upon with you before I saddle up and get to work. There’ll be no surprises along the trail.

Search Types

Land and shallow water searcheas.

Search Locations

Rockport/Fulton; Uvalde; San Antonio; Kerrville and surrounding Hill Country.

Cregg Thompson's Bio

Formerly a U.S. Army Infantry Staff Sergeant and Chief Deputy with the Atascosa County Sheriff’s Office, Cregg Thompson has spent much of his life answering the call to serve his community. He recently retired from his elected position as Constable for Precinct 3—but retirement hasn’t slowed him down.

As a member of the Atascosa County Historical Commission’s metal detecting team, Cregg continues to put his experience, determination, and boots-on-the-ground know-how to work in the ongoing search for evidence of the Battle of Medina, one of the most significant—and mysterious—events in early Texas history. Cregg and the Historical Commission team combine metal detecting, historical records, old maps, field research, and good old-fashioned Texas brushpopping—working their way through thick brush, rough country, and places where history hides beneath their feet. When the trail leads to creeks, ponds, or other waterways where artifacts have spent generations waiting to be found, Cregg is not deterred. He enjoys shallow-water detecting as much as, if not more than, detecting dry land.

Around here, uncovering history can mean crawling through brush, slogging through mud, wading shallow water, and spending hours listening to what the ground has to say. Ghosts walk beside him, shovel in hand. Every scar from the brush, every thorn that he’s bled is just the price he pays to wake up the dead

For Cregg, service didn’t end when he left the military or law enforcement. “Protect and serve” has never been just a phrase to him—it’s a way of life.

Today, when he isn’t helping preserve the history of the place he calls home, Cregg continues to answer the call by helping folks find something else that matters: their lost treasures. Whether it’s a cherished keepsake, a family heirloom, or something that simply means more than money can measure, he brings the same determination to a recovery search that he brought to his years of public service.

Because in Texas, you don’t quit looking just because something is lost. You keep your boots on, your eyes open, your detector swinging, and going where most folks wouldn’t think to look. And if that means brushpopping, wading a little shallow water, or digging through a whole lot of Texas dirt to reunite someone with something precious—well, that’s just another day on the job.