The reported kidnapping of a 13-year-old Milpitas girl from her home on Edsel Drive earlier this month was deemed a hoax, police announced Thursday evening.

On Feb. 7, City Councilman Garry Barbadillo abruptly left a city council meeting after learning his teen daughter had allegedly been kidnapped by two men from their Parktown home, but was ultimately able to escape her captors with only minor injuries.

“My daughter was kidnapped and forcedly taken from our house. Police recovered her after an hour,” Barbadillo told the Post in emails sent to the paper early on Feb. 8. “No she did not know them, two hooded animals took her. They cut her arm.”

Barbadillo was at the council meeting — which typically starts at 7 p.m. on Tuesdays — through the beginning of the first agenda item of public business. He then left shortly thereafter, not returning for the rest of the meeting which went into the early hours of Wednesday morning.

In a written release on Feb. 8, Milpitas police reported they received a call at 8:23 p.m. on Feb. 7 of a 13-year-old girl missing from a home on Edsel Drive. The girl was found in the area of South Park Victoria Drive and Yellowstone Avenue at around 9:04 p.m., according to police.

Many questions arose after the report of the girl’s kidnapping circulated through the community.

Apart from the lack of description of the suspects, the girl alleged that she was made to walk from her home — followed all the while by the two men who remained in a light-colored sedan — to Parktown Plaza Shopping Center, later being forced into the kidnappers’ vehicle and then driven around northern San Jose. Other questions on how she escaped were not answered immediately after the alleged incident.

“We take these cases seriously,” Captain Daryl Sequeira said on Feb. 8.

He added that until there was evidence to prove otherwise the police would treat the girl’s report as a real kidnapping.

On Thursday, Sequeira was not available for further details. Barbadillo also did not respond immediately to requests for comment.

On Thursday, in a four sentence written statement to the media, police asserted that after an extensive investigation, it was determined the girl’s abduction had not taken place.

Police, who did not identify the girl, said she was cited and released to her parents for falsely reporting a criminal offense.

Check back for updates on this developing story.