Theo John Burnham pleads not guilty in Armidale Local Court to stealing wool bale from Guyra property

Theo John Burnham last week fronted Armidale Local Court for the first time since he was charged in September.

Pleas of not guilty were entered for all four charges levelled against him stemming from the alleged theft, including two counts of larceny.

The 27-year-old also denied charges of destroying or damaging property, as well as dealing with the proceeds of crime worth $5000.

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Magistrate Mark Richardson accepted the not-guilty pleas and adjourned the case to later this year.

Burnham will front Armidale Local Court again in December.

He is in the community and is not on bail conditions for the charges.

Burnham was charged at Guyra Police Station on the night of September 23, more than a week after the alleged offending.

Rural crime investigators from the New England Police District launched a probe into a theft reported from a Guyra property 10 days earlier.

Police allege Burnham went to a property on the Glen Ross Road, on the outskirts of town, about 3am. He is accused of making off with a bale of wool worth $5000.

The police case is that Burnham then on-sold the bale of wool to brokers in Inverell, about an hour southeast of Guyra. Police said at the time, the bale of wool had been recovered.