Four years ago, Edward Carlos St. Mary III walked out of a New York office building carrying a backpack full of uncut diamonds valued at $3.3 million.
The Houston native had been working for months to arrange his purchase of the gems with an Indian diamond dealer. The problem, federal prosecutors said in an indictment unsealed last week, is that when he picked up the diamonds, St. Mary hadn’t paid his bill. And for months, he falsely claimed the check was still in the mail, prosecutors said.
St. Mary was arrested in Houston last week and charged with wire fraud. On Tuesday, he was ordered to be transferred to Manhattan, where he will be tried for his long-con heist…