No, he was arrested and tried because He spoke against the religious leaders. They hated Him so they trumped up charges about Him, couldn’t get anybody to have compatible testimony so they asked Him directly if He is God and He said He is. So they charged Him with blasphemy.
But they weren’t able to execute Him for a religious crime so they had to take Him to the Romans. They accused Him of not paying His taxes, subverting the nation, inciting the crowds, and claiming to be a king. (The original Tea Partier, apparently. lol) Pilate knew it was sour grapes on the part of the Jewish leadership so he was going to let Jesus go.
But then the Jewish leadership basically said they would report Pilate to Tiberius (who had just a short time before told Pilate that if he had one more dust-up with the Jews he was history). They said Pilate would be no “friend of Caesar” if he let Jesus go free, since Jesus was supposedly a terrorist enemy of Rome. There was actually an actual group called “Friends of Caesar” which had special rings; the only way out of that gorup was by mandatory suicide.
So basically it was trumped-up charges which Pilate didn’t buy, so the Jews threatened Pilate with extinction if he didn’t give them what they wanted - and that worked.
Sounds exactly like Washington DC.
The real reason He died, of course, is so He could pay the just sentence for all the sin that’s ever been committed on earth, or ever will be committed. That way God can forgive us without ignoring the need for justice.