And while Mello is on the lam, he'll be periodically checking in with Near. By phone, not in person, because doing it the latter way would be really dumb.

If anyone looking for Mello goes over Sharon's post, they may have noticed Near talking to Mello (brief as the public portion of their conversation was) as if he knows him personally. Which he does. Near didn't show his face and his name wasn't mentioned. And. Nobody knows where he lives because he and Mello are paranoid little jerks. But if anyone wants to try and find someone who actually seems to know Mello personally in order to question him about his whereabouts, I would be game to work things out.

However, regardless of whether or not Near knows where Mello is, he won't be giving him up. There will be much mixing of truth and lies, probably.