Tuesday night, the 100 Club Heroes Awards were held in Houston. Montgomery County Precinct 4 Deputy Luis Aaron Cardenas was one of the recipients of the 2025 Office Of The Year Award. On May 21, 2024, Montgomery County Deputy stopped a vehicle for a traffic offense in New Caney. Upon contact, the passenger shot at the deputy, firing through the passenger door, and then fled on foot. Deputy Cardenas immediately launched a drone to search for the fleeing suspect. He located the suspect in the backyard of a nearby residence. As deputies approached the backyard, Deputy Cardenas noticed the suspect still had the weapon, a pistol, and was pointing it towards a small gate that a deputy was about to walk through. Deputy Cardenas immediately stopped the deputies by saying on the radio, “EVERYONE STOP, STOP, STOP. HE HAS A GUN.” This prevented the deputies from walking into a potential ambush. Surrounding the backyard from adjacent properties, deputies confronted the suspect as he was raising his weapon and discharged their weapons, stopping the threat.
