Friday was moving-in day for new students at

. First-year student Jackson Honer-Hollstien should have been unpacking, arranging his new dorm furnishings, getting to know his roommate and making new friends.

Instead Honer-Hollstien was stressing out. He had driven all day Wednesday from his small hometown in central California to Portland, only to awaken Thursday at a North Portland motel to find his SUV, packed with all his belongings, gone.

All his clothes, his Cannon T2I camera, turquoise Niki mountain bike, Sector 9 longboard skateboard, downhill Armada skis, new Kindle 3G, HD printer and all the new bedding, dorm crates and other furnishings his parents just bought for him: gone.

He had parked the white 1997 Toyota 4Runner beneath a light in the parking lot of the Super Value Inn off North Interstate Avenue and said he "triple-checked" that he locked all the doors on the SUV that his dad had lent him for the year.

He picked the Super Value Inn for its name. "It was $45," he said. And, it was only two miles from campus.

Now, Honer-Hollstien, 18, with just the clothes on his back and a backpack, is shopping for the basics: underwear, socks, shirts and pants, and figuring out what calls he needs to make because whoever stole his SUV also has his Social Security card and birth certificate.

"It's the worst thing," Honer-Hollstien said. "I literally don't know how to feel."

He was particularly unnerved that it took at least nine hours before a Portland officer would take a full report on the theft.

His father, Dave Hollstien, said it was hard enough to say goodbye to his son when he left for Portland, but "then to get word that anything of any value to him was now gone, and he was pretty much stranded in a city far away, was incredibly disturbing."

So, Hollstien gathered all the belongings his son chose to leave behind at their home in Templeton, Calif., and drove north. While he was driving up, he was on the phone for at least an hour with police trying to get them to document the theft and alert officers. His son hadn't been able to get police to take a report because his dad owns the 4Runner.

Hollstien said someone from the Police Bureau told him he'd have to be present to sign the report before they could take one -- which isn't true.

"It was a fiasco trying to get someone to pay attention and file a report. I thought, 'Do I have to call 9-1-1 to get someone to actually respond? If the car was anywhere to be found, that had long passed," Hollstien said.

An officer finally took the report by phone at 9 p.m. Thursday, nine hours after Honer-Hollstien discovered the SUV was gone. But the officer -- restricted to desk duty because of a DUII conviction -- didn't include any information about the SUV's contents.

"That info should be in a report somewhere," said police spokesman Lt. Robert King, who looked it up at The Oregonian's request. "We need to take it. I'll get a report written if we have to."

At Concordia, as classmates used dollies to unload their parents' cars and move in to their dorm rooms, Jackson Honer-Hollstien said, "I rolled up with a backpack and two Target bags of stuff."

He wasn't without help, though. The university provided a $100 gift card to Fred Meyer, a $335 check from student services and is paying for his books.

And soon-to-be-friends stopped by his room, offering what they could. "People are knocking on my door, saying, 'My name is X and here's some sheets.' ... The community has been amazing."

Late Friday afternoon, Honer-Hollstien and his dad were headed out for another shopping trip.

His father said, "He's basically starting from scratch."

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