The Cleveland man responsible for saving three women Ariel Castro held captive for a decade signed a book deal, a publishing company announced Sunday. Cleveland publishing house Gray & Co. signed the deal for a memoir by Charles Ramsey on Thursday, the publisher said in a statement.

Charles Ramsey, the Ohio man who helped rescue Amanda Berry and three others being held captive, was jailed twice for domestic abuse, according to recently surfaced legal documents.The website Smoking Gun published court papers revealing that Ramsey was arrested in the past for incidents of violence against his ex-wife Rochelle, with whom he shares a teenage daughter. Ramsey he had three domestic violence convictions and served his punishment in Ohio's Lorain Correctional Institution between 1998 and 2003. For the past 10 years he has been a model citizen.

Charles Ramsey, the McDonalds worker who helped free Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus, Michelle Knight and a six-year-old girl became an overnight sensation when he gave a candid interview to a television reporter.

The Ohio kidnapper's son wrote an article about one of the missing women, Gina DeJesus, in 2004. He had no knowledge that his father was her captor.