A Germansville man previously convicted of animal cruelty once again faces allegations that he kept animals in unsanitary conditions, including two which police say had to be euthanized.

The Lehigh County District Attorney's office announced charges Monday against 49-year-old Derbe Eckhart, of Central Road in Heidelberg Township.

Eckhart faces six misdemeanor charges and 52 summary offenses stemming from a May 5 raid on the "Hidden Hill farm" where he operated a kennel.

Police did not specify how many animals were found on site, but they said two of them had to be euthanized, police said.

SPCA police officer Kelsey Beam allegedly observed numerous animals living in unsanitary conditions, according to a press release from the Lehigh County DA.

An unspecified number of animals required medical treatment.

Eckhart has been a kennel operator in the area for more than three decades. He has pleaded guilty multiple times to operating an unsanitary kennel, and cruelty to animals. His first conviction on animal cruelty charges was in 1988 in Carbon County.

He previously operated the Almost Heaven kennel in Upper Milford Township, Lehigh County. In 2010, he was jailed for more than nine months on cruelty charges stemming from that facility. A judge also barred him from keeping any animals other than the ones he owned at the time.