I assume he refused to share the door code because he didn't get a copy of the search warrant until the cops drove him back to the house.
That had been my assumption when first reading the report as written.
What I found interesting is this part:
Upon knocking on the door, a juvenile female opened the door and wouldn’t let them in. NICHOLAS REKEITA would not provide the door code to enter the residence. Law enforcement entered the home utilizing a door ram.
Upon entry, law enforcement located KAYLA REKEITA [...]
NICHOLAS REKEITA returned to the home with law enforcement. He demanded a copy of search warrant. When given a copy, he looked at it and threw it on the ground.
The probable cause sheet says the warrant was executed at 9:13am, and that Nick verifiably wasn't home.
It would probably take around 10 minutes for the officer that pulled Nick over to get him back to the house. It doesn't
seem like he was handcuffed away from the house (though the "with law enforcement" line could be a euphamism saying exactly that) and there's no mention of failing to comply with an instruction to get back to the house. Once there Nick tossed aside the warrant that he had just demanded to see, but being a petty bitch in the face of a legal warrant isn't illegal. What's more important is that there's no mention of Nick (or anyone else) attempting to
stop the execution of the warrant.
The
booking info shows that April was the first of the 3 adults checked into custody, at 10:03am. That's 50 minutes from the start of the search warrant to the actual booking.
Google Maps says it's an 11 minute joyride from Nick's house to the jail:
There's probably a 20-30 minute window where Nick is actually
at the house, with full understanding of the situation, complying.
Given all of this, it SOUNDS like the local PD rushed to break down the door before announcing to his wife that they had a warrant, or in allowing Nick to have eyes on the document. Heavy emphasis on "SOUNDS like" (because who knows what really went on) but it does appear to be corroborated by the timestamps that we know of.
The police's description does not suggest they even tried to provide the warrant prior to forced entry, only that the minor child wouldn't let the officers in. On the other hand, there's nothing that suggests the presence of an immediate danger that couldn't have waited for Nick to drive 3 blocks back home to see the warrant.
Nick and Kayla are dumb fucks for doing drugs around their kids and for needlessly living in squalor but, to me, it
also seems like the cops went heavy handed when Nick
et al was actually cooperating in the legal sense. Depending on local laws (and how it actually played out) this could be legally relevant. I'm really curious to see the bodycam footage.