ST. LOUIS COUNTY • Iyonna Hutchinson told police her love is never free.

At least twice, Hutchinson, 17, has admitted to stealing her lovers’ cars when they refused to pay her for sex.

Hutchinson, of the 900 block of Manhattan Place in St. Louis, has been charged this month with two separate counts of felony auto theft.

She told police she argued with a man in October over his refusal to pay her for sex, then stole his car while he was asleep. According to charges, the car was taken on Oct. 16 from outside his brother’s home in the 1000 block of Patience Drive in unincorporated north St. Louis County.

St. Louis County police Officer Columbus Love wrote in court records that the man awoke to find Hutchinson and the 1998 Toyota Camry he had been driving gone. The car belonged to the man’s mother.

On Nov. 10, one of Hutchinson’s ex-boyfriends reported his 2008 Chevrolet Impala was stolen from his home in the 1000 block of Grandview Gardens Court in Florissant.

He told police Hutchinson had called him and asked to see him, so he picked her up at a bus station and drove back to his apartment. He took a shower, and when he got out he realized his car had been stolen.