No he wasn't. That arrest was on a far less serious charge. "Attempted murder? Now honestly, what is that? Do they give a Nobel prize for attempted chemistry? Do they?"
And Koresh was actually arrested by the sheriff phoning him and telling him to surrender. He did.
You’re right,, it was ATTEMPTED murder. NOt Murder,, but only marginally less serious. The point, is that he was arrested without incident on an attenmpted nurder charge,,,which was far more serious than anything ATF was trying to arrest him for.